The second, semantic inversion, is the reversal of the meaning of a term (Holt qtd. in Smitherman, "Chain"). Chiastic slaying, the third rhetorical strategy, is a critique that transforms the status of a group or individual.1 Through these three modes of rhetorical transfiguration, the slur 'n----r' becomes 'n---a' a positive term that carries with it a critique of racism. I will further argue that all of these rhetorical devices operate through a principle I term
He's just using ten dollar words here when dollar ones would do.
or Expensive signs use he when cheap signs work same.( btw would this be a correct way to sign the above?)
semantic inversion - "Gay" used to mean happy, now it means "homosexual"
Chiastic slaying - "Gay Pride" - now has been elevated to a status symbol of
"being Gay" ("Your just a Heterosexual, how boring is that?
I would rather talk to someone more intresting
than you!")
Change the meaning of the word.
Change the cultural status on the word
That manipulates the culture into altering their view.
For good or bad, is called social engineering.
People can be sheep.
