The argument has nothing to do with language itself but with the role of language.
Term + my working definition:
Role of language = how language functions as a tool of identity, power, inclusion/exclusion.
Why this matters: Frames the essay’s lens for analyzing Englishes.
Black English is the creation of the black diaspora.
Term + my working definition:
Black English = a language formed within the Black diaspora in the U.S., emerging from shared necessity and community, not merely a “dialect.”
Why this matters: Centers origin and legitimacy for concept map.
as designers of meaning, language architects carefully considerhow to work with their own languages and voice for the most successfulcommunication in a specific situation (25).
Term + my working definition:
Language architects = writers who intentionally design with multiple language resources for a given audience/situation.
Why this matters for my theme: Positions students as intentional designers, not error-correctors.
An approach that resists monolingual ideology,translingualism views our different and varied language practices as crit-ical in inquiring, supporting, and sustaining the full range of richness inour voices (Horner and Alvarez).
Term + my working definition:
Translingualism = resisting one-language norms by leveraging the full range of a writer’s language practices.
Why this matters for my theme: It names the orientation that re-frames “academic writing” around plurality.
Code meshing is the new code switching; it’s mulitdialectalism and pluralingual-ism in one speech act, in one paper.
Term + my working definition:
Code meshing = blending dialects/languages/rhetorical styles together in the same utterance or paper.
Why this matters for my theme: It’s the central practice Young advances.
Standard language ideologyis the belief that there is one set of dominant language rules that stem from a singledominant discourse (like standard English) that all writers and speakers of Englishmust conform to in order to communicate effectively.
Term + my working definition:
Standard language ideology = the belief in one dominant, mandatory set of English rules everyone must follow.
Why this matters for my theme: Names the system Young critiques.
Dialect literature questions "sociolinguistic wholeness" (51).
Term + my working definition:
Dialect literature = writing that uses non-standard varieties to challenge the idea of a single, unified “proper” language.
Why this matters for my theme: Supports the claim that Bambara’s AAVE disrupts linguistic hierarchy.
In Toni Cade Bambara's short story, "The Lesson" (1972), the narrator, Sylvia, speaks in African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
Term + my working definition:
AAVE = a vernacular dialect associated with African American communities that carries cultural identity and rhetorical power in the story.
Why this matters for my theme: Establishes AAVE as the story’s linguistic frame and vehicle for meaning.
AAVE also embodies Sylvia's and Bambara's ability to question their society and to resist pressure to conform to the dominant culture.
Term + my working definition:
AAVE = a vernacular dialect associated with African American communities that carries cultural identity and rhetorical power in the story.
Why this matters for my theme: Establishes AAVE as the story’s linguistic frame and vehicle for meaning.
That’s why we have a standardized language in the first place.
Term + my working definition:
Standardized language = shared norms that enable mutual understanding across diverse dialect users.
Why this matters for my theme: It grounds the claim that SAE reduces cross-audience miscommunication.
The word “standard” here is not prescriptive. It does not refer to a flag we must all salute. Rather, it simply describes accepted norms — in this case, accepted in the workplace by college-educated professionals.
Term + my working definition:
Standard American English = the accepted workplace dialect among college-educated professionals.
Why this matters for my theme: It frames SAE as pragmatic convention, not moral superiority.
Black girls
This is crazy. I don't understand what makes women of color so different than anybody else. The amount of people that are stereotyping makes you not even want to be able to work hard and try to achieve goals when it seems like nobody cares about your hard work
pimp
A word that people use to refer to black people that don't necessarily fit into a "well hard working individual"
hallucinations
This can be a very big problem and you can see it in today's world. People tend to find facts off the internet that are completly false and a lot of it doesn't necessarily make sense, and with AI being a big thing today there definitely can be some wrong facts that are said to be true.
Large Language Models
This is definitely one of the key terms because without LLM website that provide information wouldn't be as organized as they are today.
“being-there” (Dasein)
presence? being present?
“concern-for” the other (Fürsorge)
“shared world” (Mitwelt)
cogito
the principle establishing the existence of a being from the fact of its thinking or awareness.
being-with
preoriginary relation
rhetorical agency,
différend
“‘response’-ability,” that “every action, discursive or otherwise, isonly born of an engagement with the set of conditions that produced it.”
Exigence
the reason why a writer is writing on a particular subject
Cartesian
cartesian thinking views the mind as being seperate from the physical body.
replicating an experience is not the same as replicating an exact depiction
Susan B. Anthony,
It is important to know that Susan was one of the people who was for women’s right to vote
This may be the sine qua non of rhetoric: theart of linguistically or symbolically creating salience.
Salience: importance
Weltanschauung
Weltanschauung: worldview. German.
medium thinking
Okay, so medium design/thinking is considering the backdrop against which one's subject matter is situated.
COMPLICITY
I have heard this term used a lot in the last four years. Even when I was unsure what the word precisely meant, I understood it to have negative connotations. OED defines complicity as, "the state of being involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing." If Miller is using the term in this way than that's a pretty risky way to title his piece. It implies that the structure of academia is corrupted.
paradigmatic
I was not sure what this term meant in this context. After looking the term up on google, the definition that seems to fit is the denotation of the relationship between a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles.
Universal Grammar (
The theoretical or hypothetical system of categories, operations, and principles shared by all human languages and considered to be innate, as defined by Chomsky.
syntact
regarding the formation of sentences
ound bite,
Sound bite
marking.
"Whenever a person delineates a cultural boundary around a particular cultural space in human time"
818❙Baradtoricity
Historicity - historical actuality; historical authenticity
discursive
Def. adjective
amalgamation
The action or process of uniting or merging two or more things.
agglomeration
Agglomeration: the action or process of collecting in a mass
antanaclasis
vertiginous
scansions
franchise
It's most often used in reference to the right to vote, but the term carries the larger meaning of just a right or privilege in general. It can also be "freedom or immunity from some burden or restriction vested in a person or group."
I think the broader political and social meanings of "franchise" and its derivations -- most commonly "enfranchise" and "disenfranchise" -- make it a key term for rhetoric, particularly as we continue to ask questions like “What is Rhetoric?” or “What was Rhetoric?” or “Whatever Rhetoric?” or “Which Rhetorics?” or “When Rhetoric?” or “Whenever Rhetoric?” or “What will be Rhetoric?” or “What will have been Rhetoric?” or “What isn’t Rhetoric?”