Abstract

What is the acceptable language? Who makes a particular language acceptable? Should a persons individuality be lost just to be acceptable? In the Gloria Anzaldua " How to tame a wild tongue" essay she is talking about how her life as a chicana has been. She also talks about the many different Spanish. She mentions in her story how she had to change different Spanish dialect with each different person. She says that when she would speak to some people she would sometimes instead of talking in Spanish with them she would talk English with instead. In the June Jordan essay he is saying how the media did not pay any attention to the students that wrote black English. Instead they paid attention to one student that wrote to them in standard English.
In my paper I am focusing on questioning who makes the acceptable language and what happens to the people that speak or write other languages. My paper title is "Boundaries within one's self"