Dennis Preston: MacNeil says, “Americans are ambivalent about language. They may think that New York and Southern accents are bad English but they can also find them charming.” Do you agree that Americans are ambivalent about language? Do you share the sorts of feelings MacNeil describes? Do you consider your own variety of English to be prestigious or stigmatized? 3b .
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "Notice": "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." This quote from the very beginning of the novel indicates that this book is classified as satire. This is a red flag to the reader that this story is not as it seems. It may seem like a child’s book, yet it manages to address larger and more complex issues like slavery and racism. The author’s writing style is very informal and colloquial.
You can use quotes in 2 different ways: 1. Separate quote: make your point and then back it up with a quotation. Quotations that are longer than 3 words should begin on a new line: e.g. Hill describes the way filthy fog permeates every aspect of life. This is a really disgusting simile: (the fog)’…seething through cracks and crannies like sour breath,’ 2.
It is considered a dialect of English and not a separate language. I have found in my research of Ebonics that there are many types of English. This is why Ebonics is thought to be slang when it is really a dialect. It works much like English language but with little differences. The biggest difference is that of the sound th, in Ebonics the th sound is d. So words like “those” are pronounced “dose”.
Indeed, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination are inevitable in such a multicultural society as America. A stereotype is an unchanging feeling or opinion that we impose on a specific person or thing, which is actually untrue in real life (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary). It is the biased mindset held by people against certain groups of people. This bias is often the result of past experiences one might encounter or the common public viewpoints. Throughout history, labeling and stereotyping have been employed to quicken the process of communication.
However, priming introduces a fluid aspect to studies of cross-cultural usage of pronouns since specific context can induce favorability toward either collectivist or individualistic mindsets (Oyserman & Lee, 2008). This tendency to either segregate or connect appears to interact with interpersonal assessments. Perceived reasons for individual behaviors by members of individualistic cultures are more likely to result from judgments based on ascribed attributes or traits, while those made by members of interdependent cultures are more apt to incorporate contextual or situational elements (Church et al., 2006; Na & Kitayama, 2011). Perhaps one of the clearest examples of this dichotomy exists in Western academic traditions, which continue to be subject to European notions of separateness that have produced what Gusa (2010) describes as an
According to Aaron (2007) in the The Little, Brown Compact Handbook, the word “plagiarism” is derived from a Latin word meaning to kidnap or to abduct (p. 424). Plagiarism is stealing someone else’s work and passing it off as one’s own. In many other cultures, plagiarizing is encouraged because it demonstrates familiarity and respect for the work of noted writers. However, in the United States and at Columbia Southern University, plagiarism is considered fraud and can have serious consequences. Plagiarism usually comes in two forms: intentional and unintentional.
Analyzing Lawrence’s “On Racist Speech” Morgan Marais Charles R. Lawrence’s “On Racist Speech” captures his reader’s attention by first making a connection between racist speech and a resurgence of racial violence. His thesis, found in the second paragraph of his argument, is his concern for the way universities are attempting to “regulate harassing speech” (81). Background knowledge for what fuels his argument is important to understand Lawrence’s purpose. Just a short time before Lawrence published “On Racist Speech”, universities throughout the U.S. were battling with the idea that campus’s needed to enforce speech codes. Speech codes sought to end hate speech by saying that violent speech against minorities should not be protected under the First Amendment because that kind of racial speech prevents minorities from exercising their First Amendment rights.
Chris ENG 101 13 September 2009 Assignment 2: Final Draft Orwell and Lederer Arguments George Orwell in “Politics and the English Language” and Richard Lederer in “The Case for Short Words” share a similar concern with bad habits forming in the English Language and its impact on a writer’s perspective in writing a good paper. Orwell’s central point in his essay is that the English Language is becoming untidy. Supporting his case, Orwell argues that bad habits are forming do to our foolish thoughts, caused by the slovenliness of our language. Of equal importance is Orwell’s insistence that all these bad habits are reversible. As Orwell states, “The habits can be avoided if one is willing to go through the trouble.
Anzaldúa argues that this can lead to linguistic terrorism which is when a person feels uncomfortable about his or her own culture and feel awkward talking in their native tongue. Anzaldúa states that the more students try to succeed in