linguistic essays
write a synthesis essay on linguistic diversity in academic spaces, using the 3 readings listed below as a guide.
- Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” Links to an external site.
- Stanley Fish’s “Say It Ain’t So” Links to an external site.
- Vershawn Ashanti Young’s “Nah, We Straight Links to an external site.
In response to this tension between language as a cultural marker and a dominant style of discourse in academia and education, in 1974, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) adopted a declaration called “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” The declaration states: “We affirm the students’ right to their own patterns and varieties of language – the dialects of their nurture or whatever dialects in which they find their own identity and style” (para. 2).
