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Download full textHayakawa, S.I. – The Florida English Journal, 1967
Jargon grows and communication is retarded when a learned vocabulary becomes more important for its social than its communicative functions. Teachers often severely correct the culturally deprived speaker of nonstandard English, whereas their first concern should be what is communicated, not how it is communicated. We are, after all, teaching…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English Instruction, Figurative Language, Language
