Amy Tan Response
The reactions that "broken" English receives, like with Amy Tan's mother in the hospital, was interesting to me. I know that "broken" English speakers are typically at a disadvantage to "correct" English speakers, but the fact that this exists in settings where service and information is presumably vital, such as the hospital, highlights the unconditional and (I think) broadly social aspect of the double standard. Is it socially common to regard "broken" English speakers with less attention or pertinence? Does it come from a stigma that places "broken" English speakers alongside the uneducated, or does it come from the unwillingness of people to take the extra effort to help someone who is hard to understand? I really can't say--it's probably some combination of the two, mixed with a little racism--but it's interesting to consider.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Genre Analysis Choices
Genre: News-writing/AP style
Setting: The typical news-writing style goes across print, with magazines and newspapers, and is used on the corresponding Internet sites (often papers will have a website as well).
Subject: Life and its important or popular events.
Participants: Whoever's news or making it.
Writers: News companies, anyone who wants to publish a magazine or paper in the style, and even bloggers will often imitate or use the style.
Audience: Depends on the news source.
Motives: To completely, quickly, and truthfully communicate current events and sell.
Genre 2: "Tabloid" Writing
Setting: Tabloids are mostly print or magazine-based, but recently they've into the Internet in different forms.
Subject: Whatever's popular, "breaking news", or sensational.
Participants: People who buy this stuff or are featured.
Writers: Anyone who's hired or wants to write them.
Audience: People desiring entertainment with a little information.
Motives: To $ell and provide entertaining information.
Genre: News-writing/AP style
Setting: The typical news-writing style goes across print, with magazines and newspapers, and is used on the corresponding Internet sites (often papers will have a website as well).
Subject: Life and its important or popular events.
Participants: Whoever's news or making it.
Writers: News companies, anyone who wants to publish a magazine or paper in the style, and even bloggers will often imitate or use the style.
Audience: Depends on the news source.
Motives: To completely, quickly, and truthfully communicate current events and sell.
Genre 2: "Tabloid" Writing
Setting: Tabloids are mostly print or magazine-based, but recently they've into the Internet in different forms.
Subject: Whatever's popular, "breaking news", or sensational.
Participants: People who buy this stuff or are featured.
Writers: Anyone who's hired or wants to write them.
Audience: People desiring entertainment with a little information.
Motives: To $ell and provide entertaining information.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Rhetorica Response
"Rhetorica" goes over the basic categories or types of appeals in argumentation, including Logos (the appeal to logic), Pathos (the appeal to emotion), and Ethos (the appeal to character), as well as the forms of an argument. I don't know how to respond to this other than to summarize it, so I won't say much else except that it outlines the basic function of an argument.
"Rhetorica" goes over the basic categories or types of appeals in argumentation, including Logos (the appeal to logic), Pathos (the appeal to emotion), and Ethos (the appeal to character), as well as the forms of an argument. I don't know how to respond to this other than to summarize it, so I won't say much else except that it outlines the basic function of an argument.
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