English?

Throug the time England has owned many colonies that later made themselves independent nation, but they conservate the English and some others aspects of the culture that the invaders brought.


The result of the English language seed, panted in many countries, is a mass of english variations that doesn't follow correctly the grammar, articulation, sintax and many other things.
This English variation have names, such as:


Spanglish: A mix between spanish and english


Hinglish: A mix between Hindi and English


Chinglish: Chinesse people talking English

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Chicano English: "Mexicans" but many times latin people, that talk english.


This beautiful colombian actress works in the Fox comedy serie  Modern Family. She has the particularity of pronoucing words incorrectly, as a Chicano English speaker would do. This cause several time a misunderstood between she and the audience.


Personally I think that English variations are not good for the world because they produce misunderstanding between people. It would be better if everyone speaks the same language.


Ebonics: Is the language proper of black people. This has a special feature that the others don't. Afroamericans write English exactly the same way they speak it, without any worry. For example: "gimme": give me, "foo": you silly young, "goo": good.

Language and Knowledge

Jargon & Argot can involve the same types of languages. The three principal are:


• Language in Sports
• Cientific Language
• Legal Language


The way we talk change the understanding, knowledge and interpretation. How to deal with this?


Political Correct Language ---> standart English

It represents a white guy avoiding a black person

This language is used in presentations, formal conversation and situations were you don't have the enough confidence for speaking with slang. Because it is neutral and it doesn't discriminate in any way.

How to do a Text Analysis

For doing a text analysis we must identify the most important aspects of the text, wich are the following:

Theme: An abstract word that tell us the main concept of a text (violence, love, sadness)

Topic: What the subject is about, a phrase that tell us what the text is about, it can be debatable.

Main Idea: Short summary of the text, objective.

This are the main point, but we can also understand the following aspects of the text:

Tone: Serious, sad, angry, impatient.

Genre: Fiction, non-fiction.

Register: Formal, slang (informal),  frozen, intimate

Source: Where the text comes from (Enciclopedias, webpages).

Audience: Who are the ones that are meant to read the book.

Vocabulary: Words the author use.

Argot - Jargon - Slang

Argot: it is the language that is exclusive and only understood by certain kind of people, because it is relationated with their job. For example: cops use jargon, when are in front of a situation that they must stop, for bringing reinforcement they transform the description of what is happening into a number and letter, then the other cop knows perfectly what is going on in a short time. A common person wouldn't understand this of course. That is what jargon is about. It is present in professions such as medics, computer programmers, sports, etc.

Jargon: this very similar word is very different to the last one. Jargon is terminology which is especially defined in relationship to  a specific activity, profession, group or event. This is mostly the abbreviated words used by a group of professionals such as RAM, CD, HD, KB, MC, etc. Abbreviations of all kinds belong to Jargon, ONU,UNICEF.

Slang: is the informal language regularly used by people when they are in a level of confidence, a conversation friend to friend has slang. But it is not well seen when someone use slang in business or in a presentation. There are many types of slangs. Groups of people create their own slang, for example teenagers talk in a have a very different slang to adults, but both have slang.

The Big Sleep Analysis

Critical Reading

To read critically we must create our own opinion about a text by going further the letter. We must know also the context of the text, we have to be updated to what is hapening now and what happend before.

Some techniques to be critical at the time to read a text:

Whose views are being represented?

What or whose interests are being served?

What are the intensions behind the message?

What reading or speaking position are you being invited to take up? Are we asked to see the situation from a particular point of view?

What cultural assumptions are being taken from granted?

What or who is absent that one might expect to find?

1)Why is it important to read critically?

Because we are confronted to problems and situations that we won't be able to solutionate if we dont use a critical thinking

2)What do I need to become critical?

Claritty, acuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic.

IMPORTANT:

• There is no language better than another.

• Sign systems. Everything has a meaning by the author

Reading critically this image:

This picture show us a situation of famine under the perspective of Africans to help their interest, which is to eat. The intentions behind is to move masses of people so there are more contributors of the situation. They use this type of images to change peoples perspective and behavior. We are invited to help people hungry because we have more than them as the image show, the white hand is bigger than the black one. The picture show us that we are culturaly different. The implicit that we would excpet to find is community with famine.

Active Reading: simply reading and re-reading the course material in an unfocused way takes more than you can afford

Metacognition Checklist:

• I recalled what I know about the topic.

• I asked myself questions as I read.

• I made connections.

• I decided what was important to remember.

• I thought about the reasons why things happened.

• I pictured what was happening.

What is a Stereotype?

A Stereotype is an image or concept simplistic, generalizing or incomplete, of a group of persons. The origin of the word is relationated with the molds that were used to repeat a form.


But there is also another images or figures stereotyped: the one that use it nearly as a code. An icon, for example to relationate computers to screens, thats a way of stereotype, because I'm synthesizing an idea. 


It is very difficut to avoid the stereotypes from other and from ourselves, because we use it to put in order our minds. Like if our mind is a locker and we just put the ideas in the correct locker that has a title outside.


Some examples of stereotypes: 




This guy that is mongolian its called "chino" in Chile

 This peruvian man would be called "Mono"












And much more...