31 August 2015
Prof. Young
English 1100
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
In the opening scene, Anzaldua's tongue is not helping the dentist with his procedure. The dentist has never scene a stubborn tongue before. Anzaldua thinks how can she tame her wild tongue and train it. In her story she writes about people trying to tame her wild tongue but she like to speak her own language.
Anzaldua's use of Spanish makes sense to her and other Spanish people that speak her own way of Spanish. She likes to use it in her story because her passion is using her way of Spanish.
No, Academic English can't be defined as Spanish (Standard), because when learning one of these languages is different. The sentence structure is different. Chicano Spanish is nonstandard because Spanish people have developed different ways to speak it. Academic English and Spanish (Standard) are pure in its countries because those people speak it and people can identify where you are from by your language. Chicano can be identified by people who speak Spanish and know where it came from.
Speaking and writing in Academic English is good for an identity by letting people know that you are able to do that. It is necessary for people who care about your skills.
Different types of English that I know is only Ebonics. Ebonics is spoking by African Americans that use slang versions of English.
I have no secret language nor identity that I communicate with my friends.
I speak standard and nonstandard English to my friends because that is how I talk to my friends my generation. I speak standard English to my mother and to my professor because it is most appropriate to use around them.
I am my language means that I know my own language. This connects to a person's identity by their language is known by other people.
The introduction and conclusion connect because introduction talks about how people wanted her and people like her to only speak English. But she liked to speak her Spanish. In the conclusion, it talks about her culture's identity. Her culture's identity is made up of Mexicanness and Angloness. She loves her own language that writes about it.
Yes the language that I speak is my identity because it is a part of who I am.
My identity is important to me. Anzaldua believes that its very important to have an identity. "Chicnanos did not know we were a people until 1965 when Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers united and I Am Joaquin was published and la Raza Uninda party was formed in Texas. With that recongntition, we became a distinct people. Something momentous happened to the Chicano soul- we became aware of our reality and acquire a name and a language (Chicano Spanish) that reflected that reality. Now that we had a name, some of the fragmented sentences pieces began to fall together- who we were, what we were, how we had evolved. We began to get glimpses of what we might eventually become"(Anzaldua P 264). She states that her people were not known until 1965 by a book from her people. Identity is found for who you are. You can defend yourself from other identities of the same or near dialect.
