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Direct linkGaipa, Mark – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2007
Scholars have celebrated the spoken word in King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," but they have overlooked the significance of the Letter's writing. In this essay I closely read King's act of writing the Letter, along with the figures of speech he employs in it, and I show how both--by enacting the mass media's ability to cross contexts--are…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Mass Media, Civil Rights, Context Effect
