Meaning of work the hyphens | Babel Free

Definitions

To facilitate an improvement in communication and understanding between oneself and a person or group with a differing perspective, by comparing and contrasting the differences and fostering mutual adaptation around them.

Examples

“Thus, they simultaneously worked the hyphens of their mutual existences, forming at times a balanced equation, at other times highlighting the knowledge and strengths of one particular author.”

“Outside the Gallaudet academic community, I have⟳ often, although not always, used two different long-standing interpreter-friends as my contact⟳ points at academic conferences and some academic social gatherings — helping me to work⟳ the hyphens between the hearing academic world and my own⟳ hard-of-hearing capabilities.”

“One of the ways to work⟳ the hyphens is through curricula that engage⟳ students in writing and inquiry using both students' multidialectal repertoires and the schools' literacies.”

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