Hello? or Hola? a Theoretical Look at Spanglish

The label “retarded” is usually used to describe people who are slow in learning. It’s below average intelligence and set of life skills learned in kindergarten to 12th grade, before age 18. It can’t be cured, but treatments may help like special education. In “The Professor Is a Dropout” reading by Beth Johnson, Guadalupe Quintanilla was incorrectly labeled as retarded. She accomplished by going back to school to learn.

Do you ever think about the way you speak and why? Well, Paul Robert does an excellent job explaining why people use the dialect they use in Speech Communities. He discusses that people change their use of language throughout their lives to conform to either society or to what kind of person they want to be, or to just conform to who they need to be at a particular moment, in which I agree. People’s choice of language, including myself, are affected by many of their surroundings, such as where they live and grow up at, their peers, and a person’s work place.

Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue is divided into five sections and an epilogue. The first three parts of the text present Mary/ María’s, the narrator, recollection of the time when she was nineteen and met José Luis, a refuge from El Salvador, for the first time. The forth and fifth parts, chronologically, go back to her tragic experience when she was seven years old and then her trip to El Salvador with her son, the fruit of her romance with José Luis, twenty years after she met José Luis. And finally the epilogue consists a letter from José Luis to Mary/ María after her trip to El Salvador. The essay traces the development of Mother Tongue’s principal protagonists, María/ Mary. With a close reading of the text, I argue how the forth

Meet the Fockers is a movie about two families who meet to prepare for a wedding, but some funny and surprising things get in the way when secrets are revealed. Ben Stiller plays the groom, Greg Focker, and Teri Polo plays Pam Byrnes, the bride. The two of them decide to finally bring their families together to settle out wedding plans. As the their families get to know each other things do not go well. Greg knows that his family is not a typical family so he tries to impress Pam's family by downplaying the strange ways of his parents. This paper studies communication in the movie by looking closely at eight specific communication principles and applying them to eight scenes.

Soon after his first opinion is stated, Rodriguez dives into another story, this time detailing his mother and father’s struggle to speak English in public: “In public, my father and mother spoke a hesitant, accented, and not always grammatical English. And then they would have to strain, their bodies tense, to catch the sense of what was rapidly said by los gringos. At home, they returned to Spanish. The language of their Mexican past sounded in counterpoint to the English spoken in public. The words would come quickly, with ease” (Rodriguez 572). This is the sad fate of many immigrants, as well as many people learning to speak a second language. The fact that this young boy noticed that his parents struggled is touching and sweet, while

Cash uses language the most when Darl is taken away and he becomes the new authority or narrator. He can easily express what he thinks now. Jewel doesn’t see language as anything more than a way to communicate. He follows more along the lines of his mother by acting on his thoughts and feelings. Vardaman’s language is the simplest and seemingly incoherent, yet his childish thoughts come across strongly. Vardaman sees his mother as a fish due to his lack of understanding reality and metaphors.

This theory resonated with me after reading the first three pages. I appreciate that the theory views communication as a fluid boundary of meaning construction and deconstruction and does not consider communication as fixed. Additionally, I found it refreshing and insightful that Speech Codes Theory is positioned to view each unique culture separately without a ridged set of rules that in my paradigmatic view limit the extend to exploring communication and culture. The last insight I found helpful from Speech Codes Theory is the idea that “The terms, rules, and premises of a speech code are inextricably woven into speaking itself” (Philipsen, et al., 2005, p. 62). In my view socially constructed rules are present at all times and were put in place through communication. Not only are these developed through communication, but they are reinforced by individuals interacting with each other in mundane everyday

This comparison shows the clear differences between English and its variation, and makes readers to easily figure out what her mother’s language actually is.

To Watch Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival is to be put in the hands of a filmmaker who is in command of the language his ideas predispose. Which is to say he has a firm grasp on craft. Its inexplicably soothing to be guided through a movie by someone who knows why the film is constructed the way it is. Arrival is effective and impactful, and it does this through something that affects and impacts us all: language. Villeneuve, however, is just as concerned with the language of film as written, spoken, or alien language. He manipulates the film to play off the viewers predispositions about storytelling. For example, Arrival’s first two scenes are almost an enlarged exercise in the kuleshov effect, the brain’s tendency to directly associate to sequencial

The main difference between Labov’s ‘Speech Community and Ekert’s ‘ Community of Practice’ is that the ‘Community of Practice’ is defined by more than the linguistics codes that are being used. It is focused on the concept of doing valuable actions that will embrace the community. In order to be part of a ‘Community of Practice’, one should have more than a choice of a language; all characteristics of involvement in a group are of an importance. In addition, ‘Community of Practice’ is focused on the individual and the distinctive views of the different members of the community, while the ‘Speech Community’ emphasizes more on the configurations that are being created. 2.

Spanish uses the Latin alphabet. The vowels can take an acute accent, and there is the additional letter ñ. When spelling English words or writing, students may make mistakes with the English vowels a, e, i. The consonants h, j, r, y may also cause trouble, since they have significantly different names in Spanish.

Anyway Oleanna was a pleasant surprise because in reading the text it occurred to me that the language could be made to sound more natural if the actor works at it. So maybe what I have seen so far suffered at the hands of inexperienced

Spanish, like many other languages, is a romance language that evolved from common Latin. It is the most widely spoken romance language, both in the number of speakers and the number of countries. Spanish is the official language for twenty one countries. Around five hundred million people speak Spanish, making it second only to Chinese in terms of most spoken languages. In the United States, more than forty one million people speak Spanish as their first language.

The television series object of this work is characterized by the use of the colloquial language, the spoken language, emerging/standing out among the different types of language and linguistic registers. The “colloquial Spanish” is the informal register that is used in everyday life and changes a lot depending on the geographical vernaculars of Spain. The colloquial language is a diaphasic variation of the language, because it does not depend on the education or the cultural level of the users, but any speaker can use it in the most advantageous circumstances for it. The colloquial Spanish is an oral form of the language, although today the use of digital communication media such as chat and email allows for a written "oral communication".

Through looking at patterns of social interaction of different languages it is easy to predict the linguistic results of language contact. This could be seen through multilingualism which is a result of language contact between multiple different languages. Multilingualism can create diglossia which helps display the multilingualism of a country or community and helps show it is useful for predicting the results of language contact. Code switching in which people switch from one language to another depending on the situation, helps show how social interaction between speakers of different languages helps us predict the linguistic results of language contact. Then there is dialect levelling and language change which helps show the beginning