Imagine talking to your African American friends. You, as an African American, ask them a simple question with the words “guys” in it. They look like they had just seen a ghost. Since you have been going to a mostly white school, you don’t think anything of this, but what you don’t understand is this word is unacceptable in their community. They may not treat you the same anymore or make fun of you (Deggans). Because of this story and many others like it, it is clearly a useful tool to be able to code switch. Code switching is used in social conversations, work-related encounters, and education. While code switching helps improve chances of having success in the real world, not everyone knows how to code switch effectively.
Code switching affects how students and adults view each other in different cultures depending on how much they know about each other's background. Kids are around many different cultured students, and they have to make sure not to offend anyone but also do this effortlessly. Since communities are so diverse, kids can sometimes automatically just pick up on different culture norms. According to Deggans, Boston kids use more of an accent when they are around people from the same place as them. For kids living in a community with only one culture, they find that it’s quite a struggle to meet new people in college since they aren’t familiar with other kids backgrounds. Even adults as important as Barack Obama use code switching. When Obama was giving a
I will get into the Linguistic Double Consciousness,” this article is about the mindset and ideologies and also it gets into code meshing. From my understand on this article its getting that a lot of African Americans have to switch up when they are speaking to a Caucasian person and they also have to mind how people are thinking of their behaviors, for example this article points how African Americans have to code mesh when it comes to school they are more likely have to do things that they may not be very use to. This would mean if an African American kid is thought different when they are at home it’s going to be harder for them to mesh in the classroom with other none blacks.
Tone is another thing that be misinterpreted by other as when someone raises their c=voice to one group of people it means that they are angry are annoyed but to other it can mean that they are excited yet in different culture this can be the subtle difference in cultures; different cultures will often have picked up different things like when looking at the west it is very common to use communication methods as emails and texting. Other culture prefer to communicate through telephones or written word; and generation can also affect the language as young people will have developed new language to accompany the new technology which may seem horrible to older people.
In the begging of the chapter, Anzaldúa decides to incorporate the use of code switching to show how both languages are a
Another example of how different social and cultural differences effect the way people communicate is a parent of a pupil I work quite closely with can not read. This is a social difference because it effects the way she communicates socially with other parents at the school and also the staff who work their. We can not communicate with this
People from different backgrounds may use and/or interpret communication methods in different ways because every family has their own way of communicating together. For example: some children might hear or speak more than one language at home or they could hear others swearing. This can affect children’s communication and how they communicate as adults.
“Our phones are not accessories, but psychologically potent devices that change not just what we do but who we are.” (Turkle 2015). As the technology era is on the rise, the face-to-face talking era is on the decline. Technology now days is being used in our every day lives. Just like everything technology absolutely has pros and cons but do the cons out weigh the pros? As stated in the article: “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.” written by Sherry Turkle, she lays out how technology is affecting the people in the society. Today’s technology comes with consequences: leading us to be vulnerable, unaware and shallow.
Cultural differences pose several barriers for students and may impair their opportunity to learn. These barriers are created by differences in language expression, communication style, preferred learning style, gender-role customs and behaviors, and limited parental involvement due to these cultural or socioeconomic barriers
The Conference on College Composition and Communication discusses two very important and controversial questions within their article “Students’ Right to Their Own Language”: “What should the schools do about the language habits of students who come from a wide variety of social, economic, and cultural backgrounds?” (2), and “Should the schools try to uphold language variety, or to modify it, or to eradicate it?” (2). While for academic writing purposes students should be expected to use standard American dialect, it is important to respect the diversity and various heritages throughout the country by allowing students to use the dialect they choose when speaking.
Two African Americans are applying for the same job. One goes in speaking Standard American English (SAE); the other goes in speaking African American Vernacular English (AAVE). The interviewer can relate to the first African American; however, the interviewer cannot understand the second African American. The interviewer cannot understand why the person is dropping g’s, not using verb agreement, and using improper verbs such as finna. Can you guess who got the job? The first African American got the job because they code-switched, so the person interviewing them could understand what they were saying; whereas, the second African American didn’t get the job because although the interviewer understood what was being said it wasn’t professional. Code-switching opens up opportunities for those who use it.
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Code Meshing is the process of speaking both formal and informal at the same time; where as code switching is the process of switching from speaking formal to informal, or informal to formal in order to fit in. I choose not to use either of those methods. I used to use code switching most of my life up until I went to high school. My parents taught me to code switch to show respect to my elders. You should not speak to elders the same way you would speak to your friends. I went to a Afrocentric school Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School There we was taught to embrace our history and use Ebonics in our everyday language.
Not many things in life stay the say anymore. You can expect one thing to happen but then all of a sudden its turns out totally different. There is a quote that kind of speaks to me from a movie called forest Gump “life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to get”. It’s so true but we as humans, we adapt we take on these changes and we adapt to them. I’m going tell you about a big change for me about seven years ago the move that changed many things for me.
While I have not watched every episode of these two television programs, from what I have observed, code switching has not occurred. While there is a wide variety in regards to the ethnicity of different characters, none of them are multilingual. However, it is possible that code switching could occur in future episodes. For example, in Grey’s Anatomy they get many different types of patients. It is very likely that one of those patients may speak two languages and switch in times of stress. The same is true of Empire. The clientele dealt with in Empire ranges and there is a strong possibility one of those characters could practice code
Look around. Everyone has their faces buried into their phones, laptops, iPads, etc. Many people would say that technology is taking over in our everyday lives. I, however, beg to differ. Technology is one of the best things the human race could get their hands on. Yes it seems like everything is in “the Cloud” or everyone is tweeting, reposting, Snapchatting, and liking everything. But how I see it is, a way for people to communicate and share ideas they have with other like-minded people, accomplish papers and essays without having to go to a library because whatever device you use, has a search engine that can search any question you have. As an aspiring computer programmer, technology will always play a role in my career because someone is responsible for the software and programs that allow a computer to run, the world around us is always adapting, and without technology, where would computer programmers be? If I received the Evolve IP Cloud Scholarship, then the scholarship would be able to open so many doors for me because I would be able to afford continuing my education.
Why spend money that is really needed for other things? Why live uncomfortably? Why be trapped in this hole called a home that belongs to another person? Why not live free and peacefully? When a person rents he or she usually throws away money that could be used to purchase something that belongs to them. Money is not easy to come by so why pay out hundreds toward something that is not benefit to the person paying it out. There is no good explanation for making a decision like this. The best option in a situation like this is to buy a house. Buying a house is a better option than renting an apartment.