Oh-Prefaced Responses to Assessments A Method of Modifying Agreement/Disagreement

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I want to begin with a text from the “Parade” section of the LA Times of Sunday, January 25, 1998. On the cover is a picture of a woman in full fire fighting attire, backlit by flames and hosing water at a target that is out of the shot. Superimposed on the picture is a text that reads: “A fire fighter, a jockey, a welder, a tobacco farmer, a boxer-these women’s stories are as different as their professions, but they all have one sentiment in common: ‘Oh, yes I can!”‘ A significant element of the “sen time not” referred to here is one of rebuttal. This woman, the reader is led to infer, decided to be a fire fighter and was told that it is not a job for a woman. The picture with its caption conveys that she has driven back this attack and overcome the opposition of naysayers.

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