Selection, Slanting, and Charged Language

Slanting has always taken place in the written language. Weather it is written or spoken it is still the same concept and it is for the same reasons. Slanting is defined as the process of selecting knowledge- factual and attitudinal, words and, emphasis, to achieve the intention of the communicator. ( Birk pg 395) You can add emphasis but using italics. This will help to slant the viewer’s attention or you can stress a word in the sentence. Question marks comas exclamations and other punctuations can also add to slanting. It is impossible to put two facts together without giving some slant or emphasis. Slanting is not always about how you add a word or change the way it may look, it can also be just by simply not putting in facts that are against your argument or your topic. When writing a sentence a good way to slant is by using charged words. Charged words can be words that help to describe something further in depth or using good action words that give the reader a better feeling or idea about the passage. In spoken language you can help to show a slant by the way you raise or lower your voice. However not all of the time do you have to show a slant by words, hand motions and facial expressions can also add to the feeling and slant of the conversation. I use slanted language almost every time I talk and so do most people. It is just a way of speech that we all take part in.