COMM 1117 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The New Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws, Jeff Sessions
2 May 2018
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Using language that makes it easier to participate in a debate
Language use that helps the audience "follow" and remember your arguments. Grounded in the ways
that language structures thought
Signposting -- Providing short, easy to remember summary statements of your major claim at the
beginning of each part of your case.
• E. Fo class hadout Rachel Mati’s iteie uestios help Paul Butle sigpost his cast
for an alternative to mass incarceration
Transitions -- Statements that reconnect subordinate claims and support back to major claims
• Ex. (from class handout) Martin: Are you seeing any encouraging signs from your point of view in
the Justice Department as led by Jeff Sessions?
o Butle: Thee are points of light here and there. For example, the Sessions Justice
Department has focused on homicides against transgender people. Transgender women
of color especially are extremely likely to be victim of crime. Ad it’s geat that the
federal gov. under Attorney General Session is showing some support for that
community.”
Figures of Speech
Phrases that convey attitudes as well as ideas. They indicate how a speaker positions herself within an
argument and encourage an audience to assume a similar position.
Hyperbole -- Use of exaggeration for emphasis. As a phrase, it asks the audience to give it the proper
importance in the argument. It also arouses the audience's emotions.
• E. Pictue ith oopol chaacte that sas Wh Capitalis loes pisos This iage
seems designed to transfer the feelings of those who dislike free market capitalism to their
feelings about mass incarceration
Antithesis -- Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas. As a phrase, it asks the audience to consider the ideas to
be mutually exclusive (you must choose one or the other). There is often an emotional investment in
the choices that comes from experience.
• E Opeig “ociet Foudatios, Apil , : The pla is to ake salle jails i the
boroughs, near the courthouses, so failies ca isit, so it does’t take all da to go to a islad.
With smaller jails, you can have fewer guards, easing the tensions inside. It’s the opposite of
ass icaceatio. It’s decaceatio. Shorter stays are also a key part of this.
Metaphor -- A direct or implied comparison between two concepts
• Ex. Jim Crow laws were passed by legislatures after the Civil War to legalize separation of the
races
• Ex. The title of the book The New Jim Crow, serves as a metaphor for mass incarceration issue in
the U.S.
Irony -- Using a word to communicate the opposite of its usual meaning
• Ex. Mass incarceration means growing political opposition to imprisonment.
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Document Summary
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