Authority and American Usage, by David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace, author of the article "authority and use of America", defines "as a persuasive power to influence the mind and behavior of the audience", has a strong rhetorical ability "excellent Praise and support the writer ". "(Wallace 628). In order to have a strong rhetoric ability, authors need to understand who their audience is to present their message in a way that will affect their audience.Wallace "We acknowledge the application of strong rhetorical ability." As the author will be able to keep in touch with the audience, they will "recognize not only their own words but also themselves" (Wallace 641).

Writer David Foster Wallace will examine British politics closely with his 1999 famous writer and American usage. In the analysis of more accurate political correctness, Caucasian English and Black English, Wallace held "interpolation" of macro discussion to discuss what he called "academic cancer". For American writers, academic English is a very ambiguous and pretending variant of standard English, worse than government English and business English. Academic English is so bad as Wallace destroys what it calls "the meaning as a communicator of the author's own resume and the language as a subtle rhetorical balance of language". In other words, it is about writers rather than writing. With a glimpse of psychology, Wallace concluded that the "true purpose" of academic English is "hiding and the fear of its true motivation".

In David Foster Wallace's "authority and American usage" it seems to be a long-term commentary on the dictionary, describing the crisis of authoritative language problems and the stipulated and descriptive grammar. Conservative and liberal factions have provoked or gave some details of the destruction of analogy (the white working class did not wear a bow tie, and the women's March signs say "all usage is relative I was not reading "). The important thing is that the language is political. To reach that rule and practice is an endless tug-of-war battle What is the "right" way to use this word, and who will judge it? - From the perspective of Wallace, use a dictionary to speak cleverly and persuasively