Sunday, October 5, 2008
new understanding of AAVE
I want to talk something different here. I have come along way to understand that identity in society and identity in utopian space is all a form of name. here Myspace, facebook, msn are quite popular with people, i remember how do people went crazy when we first launch this online chatting space. let me give some examples: when people start to use facebook or myspace to chat or hang out with friends, my regular circle (my friends nearly spend all of their leisure time to hang out online or play games online, they turn their completely social life into utopian cyberspace, some of them even develope a cyber affair with their online buddies. as a result, it intrigues me into a research of cyberspace. first of all, i analys how could an identity with absent of body online can become so popuplar and some of them even addict to it. to simplify, all we do is chatting online with an image. language must have something to do with. of course, i agree that people are free to talk online but they do bear certain limitations, as more and more people get access to internet, the website developer has created very creative interface and classified various forums, as people choose to enter a certain forum, their topic or language is limited to certain boundaries. personally, i perceive internet identity is a separate identity from virtual identity, the language they use convey negative or positive perception on people, since you cannot see the person you talk with online, the only way you can see them or understand them or understand their personality is through conversation, they determine your gender, race, personality, social status by the language you choose to use. at some point, new comers will conform themselve to the language practice others use online so it is not accurate to judge by the language they use online. Back to AAVE, why AAVE is not as popular as SE (standard english), i think there are several reasons: first, SE come first, second, AAVE is spoken by AA (whether it is considered as language or dialect, vary on people), third, political issues. i think language is completly a separat entity of identity, it is all up to people to decide whether to speak a certain language or not. the issues concern with underrepresented minority or silence voice or women can be attributed to people's associtaiton with gender, race. If people perceive language is completly an independent element, a way to communicate with people. it won't have that many questions. "we are all the same", in practice, gender, race are factors to judge others.
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I'm less certain how AAVE usage demonstrates individual identities, and if it does, how is it represented more specifically in these environments? How does this representation relate to things we've read in class?
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