3.) I would have to say that I have judged people on how they spoke. Usually if someone has a speech impediment, I tend to think that they have a disability or something. It isn't like I do this intentionally, it's just the first thing I think of.
Summary:
In her article Smitherman talks about how many different ethnicities and races speak with their personal dialect and jargon. Smitherman compares how white people talk with the way that black people talk. She discusses the differences in their grammer and how they present their language. Smitherman also addresses the issue of "speaking proper". She basically explains that people who say this defeat the purpose of the phrase.
Synthesis:
In Smitherman's article, I was able to relate her discussion with McCloud's. For instance, when I'm around my friends, I speak differently than I would if I were with my parents. People usually act differently and talk differently when they are around certain people. Another author that was similar to Smitherman was Swales. Swales discusses how a lexus is the type of language that connects a discourse community together, Smitherman's article was similar to Swales' definition of lexus. Another author I found similar was Wardle because both authors discuss how finding one's identity can lead to an easier transition into a community.
Response
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Quotation
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I really liked this quote because
Smitherman uses this style of writing throughout her article in order to get
her point across and to explain the different jargon of people.
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“Obviously this didn’t make
things no better for the common folk” (Smitherman 190).
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I found this to be an interesting
quote because it shows how, we as a society, need a poor class in order to
determine where the bottom is. In this circumstance, the white community
would often use African Americans to define the bottom.
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“So Americans, lacking a fixed
place in the society, don’t know where they be in terms of social and
personal identity. For this reason, it has been useful to have nigguhs
around, so at least they always knows where the bottom bees” (Smitherman 190).
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The was a significant quote to
me, because a lot of times, teachers look at the mechanics of a student’s
writing instead of the actual content. While the mechanics are important, the
topic being discussed is even more important.
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“Now my advice to teachers is to
overlook these matters of sheer mechanical “correctness” and get on with the
educational business at hand” (Smitherman 192).
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This was an interesting quote
because it shows that the people how tell others to “speak proper” are really
trying to get them to conform to their ways of speaking and that they believe
that the way they speak is superior.
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“Being told to “speak proper”, meaning
that you will become fluent with the jargon of power is also II part of not
“speaking proper”” (Smitherman 193).
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Thoughts:
I really liked this article, mainly because of the way it was written. I also found it easy to read and understand. Smitherman does an excellent job of discussing dialect and the ways that communities interact with one another by their own use of jargon.
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