College English Jan 2014

Multilingual Writing as Rhetorical Attunement

Rebecca Lorimer Leonard

Abstract

This essay examines the lived literacy experiences of six multilingual immigrant writers, arguing that their everyday multilingual practices foster a distinct rhetorical sensibility: rhetorical attunement—an ear for, or a tuning toward, difference or multiplicity. Rhetorical attunement is a way of acting in the world as a multilingual writer that assumes linguistic multiplicity and invites the negotiation of meaning across linguistic differences. The essay shows that multilingual writers aren’t aware of this quality of language a priori, but come to know—become rhetorically attuned—across a lifetime of communicating across difference.

Journal
College English
Published
2014-01-01
DOI
10.58680/ce201424524
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multilingual writers

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