Week3 Discussion Board
In Stinging Like Tabasco, Imani Perry lays out eight features of signification taken from Geneva Smitherman (via Henry Louis Gates): 1. Indirection, circumlocution2. Metaphorical-imagistic3. Humorous, ironic4. Rhythmic fluence and sound5. Teachy but not preachy6. Directed at person or persons usually present in the situational context7. Punning, play on words8. Introduction of the semantically or logically […]