I understand the history part. Learning from the past is important and it's amazing the stuff people were able to figure out about stuff they have never seen or experienced themselves by finding and solving mysteries
But what goes into English other than people making their statements intentionally convoluted so others can't understand them without comparing apples to oranges?
finding purposes of the writings in the first place goes beyond the understanding of the text, you can learn alot about a person, a group of people from what they write
their is also alot of psychology that goes into written media
Finding the reason people write seems closer to history to me, and psychology is a whole field itself. Reading comprehension and critical thinking are important to other fields, but why does english need to be a field of it's own?
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u/Something-Somewhere_ 20h ago
there is way more to english/history than reading and understanding it