Sunday, September 14, 2008

Dw 1b +learning new language is like building a house?

"any intellectual, not just the black intellectual-is not just to understand the world but to change it. because he well understood the far-reaching ramifications of the production of knowledge."
In the world of literacy, there is no absolute answer, because literacy is a way to express your own thought, your feelings and your opinions. regardless of people from various ethnic groups speaking their own dialect or languages, even though people come from same ethnic group has language barriers, because everyone is unique so does the way of expression. thus, we have to set up a "formal language or standard English in this case" to communicate with outsiders. I personally think going to school is to learn the "formal language" in order to learn communicate with others, that is what i refer to school language or the way we talk to people as formal language. of course, it will adjust as people grow closer to each other. i like the idea that Dubois said "is not just to understand the world but to change it." which reminds me of the movie "Lost in translations". I think language is a very interesting nature, because i can speak two languages plus several dialects, i figure all of them is same but grammar. and it makes me wonder why some can speak more than one languages, is it because they figure out the key factor is grammar, once people acquaint grammar of the new languages learning new language is as simple as builing a house which has a blueprint and build a house base on it. in this case, putting vacabulary into sentence regualated by the grammar.
".......well understood the ramification of production of knowledge" the "formal language" we practice at school is a tool for us to intercommunicate with individul one to exchange ideas or knowledge. If knowledge is said to be the key to a gate of treasure, then the "formal language" is the doornob connecting them.

1 comment:

Prof. PC said...

Good start with the analysis.

- Can you provide the reader with a bit more context about the quote you're using? Why said it? What does it refer to? How does the author use and analyze her discussion of the intellectual?

- I'm a bit unsure how you're interpreting the quote to relate to formal language. I agree that there is a relationship, but I need a bit of help seeing how you understand this relationship.

A bit more clarification needed with the analysis you present here, but the ideas are very interesting!