Vocabulary Words for What Is English?

There may be a number of words in What Is English?  that you have not seen before.Keep a list of the words that you do not know.Look up the definitions, and then see how Elbow uses the words in his text.Here are a few words to get you started:

• Hermeneutics
• Pedagogy
• Cognitive
• Epistemology
• Jargon
• Obfuscate 
• Autonomous
• Paradox
• Philology
• Canon
• Poststructuralist