Conversing with Silence: Destabilizing Understandings of the Linguistic Reverberations of the Japanese Internment Camps.

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Abstract: This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in the first-year Writing and Rhetoric classes, Integrated Learning Environments, and Thinking Matters programs. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style. In this essay, Sydney Westley uses the concept of "linguistic reverberations" to analyze the effects of Japanese internment across multiple generations.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2018

Author	Westley, Sydney
Advisor	Schaeffer, Tesla

Subject	Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Subject	Japanese
Subject	internment
Subject	linguistic reverberation
Genre	Article

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/hs880fm8092

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Preferred Citation: Westley, Sydney and Schaeffer, Tesla. (2017). Conversing with Silence: Destabilizing Understandings of the Linguistic Reverberations of the Japanese Internment Camps. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/hs880fm8092

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