User:Geo Swan/Cynthia Chambers Erasmus

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Cynthia Chambers Erasmus studies aboriginal languages and literacy.^[1]

References

^ Cynthia Chambers Erasmus (March 1989). "Ways with Stories: Listening to the Stories Aboriginal People Tell". Language Arts. 66 (3): 269–271. JSTOR 41411738. Archived from the original on 2021-01-17. Retrieved 2020-09-04. One of the thousand, the testimony of Lazarus Sittichinli, exemplifies much of the discourse style of the aboriginal witnesses to these hearings. Rather than employing a rational, impersonal style of argumentation, Lazarus persuades his audience by demonstration. He leads his listeners through a series of personal experiences which constitute the bulk of the testimony and illustrate his unstated point. When personal experiences are an important source of knowledge, stories about those experiences are an important means of persuasion. Thus for aboriginal speakers such as Lazarus, stories are an important way of establishing who they are, what they know, and why the audience should heed their words.