Although her ultimate audience for her book was her mother, she had also kept in mind students who were like her in school. Tan also highlights the literacy struggles of other Asian-American students like herself who struggled with English test in school.
The teachers unexpectedly said that the females were speaking more, but in reality the males were out speaking the females One main reason for this is because any speech from a woman is often seen as too much speech at all.
Another thing that contributes to the factor of women not speaking would be the social requirement for them to be good listeners. Michelle Webber explains, through the curriculum taught by teachers in school, forms of masculinity and femininity are portrayed according to the dominant ideals Webber, , p.
Both concepts are seen as stereotypical views, which arrive from the social and dominant assertion of how a gender is supposed to be achieved. Critical Reflection In the first reading the author Jessica Lopez explicits the story of a young teenager who came from two different ethnicity background. The young teenager had to confront so many challenges because of her race, and how terrifying it was to be a woman of color. After graduating from high school, the young teenager attended St. To her future audiences, which ironically in this case was a freshman college class, the most jargon used based off the subject may be the term "textspeak" This use of diction shows two main qualities on how Cullington views her audience.
She understands that to the people she 's trying to sway with her research, lives in the day and age that the average person is bombarded by the technological advances, like text messaging. The choice of diction Covington uses shows the readers that her message of writing has much more of an importance then impressing the readers with eloquence.
They described themselves as Asian femme creatures and have opened an inclusive place online for other women whom feel the same way. These women feel as though they unrepresented in coursework and in the media as they live in white-dominant societies. Therefore, they took it upon themselves to make a change through a variety of ways. Janek37 talk , May 29, UTC. Triakula talk , January 9, UTC.
The list of misconceptions should be enough, your last addition was unnecessary. This belongs in a blog post comment, in a talk page Ecl1psed talk , July 26, UTC. Should this be added to the definition section of the article? Bucholtz then discusses Certeau, who considered speakers more agentive, yet did not explain how culturally shared resources such as language are made to serve the specific social needs of individuals.
The final theorist discussed is Ortner, who relates practice to women by viewing structure itself as a textual field within which speakers operate. The next section of the article continues to critique the concept of the speech community, noting that it is deficient in examining gender. Some of these criticisms include that the speech community is too focused on central members, has a static view of identity categories, overlooks interaction between speech communities, and privileges the group over the individual.
The article continues by discussing how a community of practice framework can examine conflicts and marginal members in a community by showing multiplicities of identities on display. Bucholtz proposes a framework to classify these practices: negative identity practices, which individuals use to distance themselves from a rejected identity, and positive identity practices, which individuals participate in to construct a chosen identity. Negative identity practices included less participation in the California vowel shift, resistance to slang, and resistance to colloquial or nonstandard phonology and syntax.
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