The College of Education for Human Sciences - University of Basra organizes a panel discussion on the ideological textual values of Ralph Waldo Emerson's articles on the abolition of slavery, according to critical stylistic steps.
The College of Education for Human Sciences - University of Basra organized a panel discussion on the ideological textual values found in the articles of the American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson on the abolition of slavery, following the method of Leslie Jeffreys in critical stylistic analysis.
The seminar, which was lectured by the postgraduate-Master’s student, Zina Haidar, aimed at clarifying the role of linguistic and textual structures in expressing various ideas and ideologies in various social problems, including the abolition of slavery.
“Anti-slavery”
The episode shed light on how to use and employ the linguistic tools provided by Jefferies in analyzing Emerson's selected texts linguistically. To reach the writer's ideology related to the abolition of slavery and its effects.
The episode touched on the importance of linguistic elements in researching and discovering this from the writer regarding the abolition of slavery, as well as adopting a linguistic critical method instead of the social method.