I really enjoyed Delpit’s piece on language diversity and the notion that someone’s race can influence the way a person speaks. Race, as Delpit notes, is also highly correlative with a person’s socioeconomic class\/background. African-Americans and Latinos, for example, are disproportionately located among lower-income neighborhoods and thus school-systems. As the little boy in the beginning of the passage notes, there is a communicative dissonance between members of these “inner-city” communities, as we refer to them and those who “talk white” (even perceivable by children!). \u00a0Now, this seems obvious to most people who are not completely sheltered (much like those from my hometown) but it raises an interesting question: Is there a “correct” way to speak?<\/p>\n
What I mean by “correct” is not necessarily “best” or “optimal”, and certainly not “most intelligent” but simply right by objective standards and rules of a language i.e. certain pronouns correspond to certain groups in English like “he”, “she”, “they”, etc. Does it matter if someone who talks “white” and someone who does not are able to nonetheless have a conversation and communicate with the same ease as two people who engage in the same dialect, as Delpit defines it? Curious as to what everyone here thinks on this matter, given most of us share in a relatively diverse series of backgrounds and experiences, and as such may have different experiences with different “dialects’, as it were.<\/p>\n
I also am aware I use a frustrating amount of “quotations” in my writing, thank you ahead of time for bearing with me on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I really enjoyed Delpit’s piece on language diversity and the notion that someone’s race can influence the way a person speaks. Race, as Delpit notes, is also highly correlative with a person’s socioeconomic class\/background. African-Americans and Latinos, for example, are disproportionately located among lower-income neighborhoods and thus school-systems. As the little boy in the beginning … Continue reading “Language Diversity: Is there a “correct” way to speak.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}