My Different Speech Communities I belong to multiple different speech communities, but I have two main ones I consider what makes me. According to Paul Robert’s essay “Speech Communities” a speech community is made in certain ways “these communities which sometimes have their own dialects, their own jargon, and their own codes , meanings ,and pronunciations--are formed by a variety of factors, according to Roberts, including ‘age, geography, education, occupation, social position’ “. The two speech communities that I think are the most important to me are home and school. I am going to talk about the differences and similarities between my speech community at home and at school. I consider my speech community at home a very relaxed
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At school my speech community can differ depending on what class you are in. No teacher is the same, one may expect certain word that another would greatly disapprove of. The teacher I have first hour is Cody Miller. Mr. Miller is one of my teachers that is more lenient with slang but still has a rule of no profanity. He is one of the youngest teachers we have so I think that effects how he views slang and how we use …show more content…
Her rules are the same in 8th hour as they are in 5th hour. She will let slang go by but she would prefer if you did not use profanity. Although it is the end of the day she may let a few more cuss words go by then she would during 5th hour. After school is over comes football practice. And at football practice it is a completely different story then it is at home and at school. At football practice the adrenalin is pumping and everyone is a little more hyper then they are at school so more profanity is said then would be said at school. Our coaches during practice will let about anything slide by because it is football and things are going to be said. As long as it is not to put anyone down, and only to either bring someone up, or emphasize something they are ok with that being used. I have thought a lot about this topic lately because like Amy Tan said in her essay “Mother Tongue” “I was made keenly are of the different Englishness I do use” this topic was brought to my attention. And I had never really thought about how differently I talk in different places. From home, to school, to football practice, my speech used is very different in some ways, but also very similar in other ways, and they are always
At school my speech community can differ depending on what class you are in. No teacher is the same, one may expect certain word that another would greatly disapprove of. The teacher I have first hour is Cody Miller. Mr. Miller is one of my teachers that is more lenient with slang but still has a rule of no profanity. He is one of the youngest teachers we have so I think that effects how he views slang and how we use …show more content…
Her rules are the same in 8th hour as they are in 5th hour. She will let slang go by but she would prefer if you did not use profanity. Although it is the end of the day she may let a few more cuss words go by then she would during 5th hour. After school is over comes football practice. And at football practice it is a completely different story then it is at home and at school. At football practice the adrenalin is pumping and everyone is a little more hyper then they are at school so more profanity is said then would be said at school. Our coaches during practice will let about anything slide by because it is football and things are going to be said. As long as it is not to put anyone down, and only to either bring someone up, or emphasize something they are ok with that being used. I have thought a lot about this topic lately because like Amy Tan said in her essay “Mother Tongue” “I was made keenly are of the different Englishness I do use” this topic was brought to my attention. And I had never really thought about how differently I talk in different places. From home, to school, to football practice, my speech used is very different in some ways, but also very similar in other ways, and they are always