Tuesday, September 20, 2005
changing my paper idea
Okay! So after reading the story by Gloria something or other. I've decided to write my paper on that story and Lu's story. because they both deal with different language situations. They both want to speak one language but in society they find it hard because when they are in different social situations people are speaking different and they needed to learn to cope with that. Although I find these stories different also because in Lu's piece people told her she had to speak english one time, chineese another. But in Gloria's piece she seemed like she adapted on her own. Hope this turns out better for me than my last paper was going to!!
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Lisa,
I like the pairing of Anzaldua and Lu in your topic. I think that you could do quite a bit around the issue of language and society. Both author's discuss connections between literacy and identity, language and culture. Both of them also seem to be pointing to fact that language is not simply about "communication." It also conveys, reinforces, or contests particular values. What do you think?
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