Linguistic Activism and its Origin
Abstract
Poetry, as a huge part of the artistic culture in the modern day, has had roles from records of stories and letters of flattery to a form of creative expression. Over the years, poetry gained a larger audience, with social media platforms promoting poets and their messages to society. Activist movements had the help of poems to deliver their voices for social justice, such as performance poetry used by black artists to advocate for their rights artistically. However, linguistic activism is not a newly emerging movement; instead, the idea of raising new ideas to society to cause political or social change existed far before our times. To further explore this connection, this paper will use cases from the past and relate concepts from different eras and will therefore propose a conclusion of the necessity of such a connection between art, innovation, social progression, and politics.
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