Some Imaginal Factors Influencing Verbal Expression

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Excerpt from Some Imaginal Factors Influencing Verbal Expression: A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment, on the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor or Philosophy, in the University on Michigan, Departments on Rhetoric and PsychologyClassroom experience shows a great degree of variation in the power of quick, effective, and pleasurable expression in words on the part of students who are apparently equally intelligent and similarly trained. Some have a facility in the use of words which seems to be a dangerous thing, a temptation to super ficialty and confusion. Others have the idea but can't express it, or. Not immediately. The stock reply of the teacher, You mean that you haven't any idea to express, or that it is too vague for expression, though often, no doubt, an accurate diagnosis, does not seem to apply in all cases. Another explanation of the student's inability to express himself, the effect of which is to make all clear thinking verbal, is implied in such statements in the rhetorics as the following by Arlo Bates:1 Every student should learn that it (literary form) is an absolute essential of all clear thinking. A number of teachers, asked what part of the'process of thinking they conceived of as taking place in wo'rds, answered, in the words of one of them, Thinking and wording are one and the same process. That literary form is essential to all clear understanding on the part of the listener may be granted, whether it is essential to clear thinking is cer tainly open to question. Intelligent and observant scholars seem to have had experiences similar to those of the inarticulate stu dent. For example, Jespersen2 says: If you have to speak on a difficult or unfamiliar subject on which you would not like to say anything but what was to the point and strictly justifiable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.