nancy maires

Nancy Mairs , a women who likes to be referred to as cripple, expands on the relationship between disability and identity. The examples Dolnick gave on how people seem to treat "disabled" people has to do with their identity. The outer appearance affects another's judgement and forces them to be kind, more aware of what a disabled might need. Mairs explained the ways language and disability interact with each other. The whole concept of whether what kind of disability a person has can affect language. The Mental disability makes it difficult for people to communicate with them. Then there is the physically challenged people who are completely the same as everyone else on a communication and intelligence level but are looked down upon because of their disability. Like I said, more people are aware and just watching out for what that person might need. And last there is the language on certain people can understand, the type of people where segregation can somehow be related into this. For instance, someone with a disability can emphasis with another who is also disabled. There really is no need for the whole, "I'm sorry" "I can't imagine what your going through." They can go straight to the "and ho did you learn to deal with the emotion" or such and such. It's a different type of language in my point of view.

Deafness is a Disablitiy

Deafness in my opinion is a disability. Dolnick's expansion of our definition somewhat does and does not integrate into someones identity. The way an individual can communicate is in a way a disability. Everyone around the world is not able to understand each other and can be considered a disability. At least to me it can be. There are certain things that are vital to a person in order to be considered disable. In my point of view not being able to hear is just as important as not being able to see, or move. The arguement where everyone at some point may see blury, or does not hear the words correctly is all proof that we are all disable. But some are more than others. Some people have to live with that disability all their life insteaf of just a couple times throughout their life. The way this can influence individual identity is by stratification. People eventually are place into groups of physical or mental features. The "normal" people, the "deaf", or "blind" people, even cripple's or handicapped individuals are all classified by society and therefore reflects on an identity. The way this can be argued is by explaining how either way, disabled or not, a person can live their life "normally." The cultural pre-conceptions about language are challenged by people who do not agree what they have is a disability and therefore do not want to find ways to make themselves more compatible to others. For example sign language, cued speech, or the cochlear in order to help "disables" getting around easier with standard "normal" person. Dolnick made an intersting arguement that can be considered and understood, so now instead i classify everyone (including me) disabled or normal. In the end we are all the same.

Black English

Baldwin and Tan's view of language are quite similar. They both believe that language reflects back on their identity. Tan's view on language explains how people feel comfortable speaking their first language. This in my opinion is true, unless you move as a child to another country and make a living there. (My cousins first hand experience.) My cousin Lalo's, first language is Spanish. Although everyone around him speaks Spanish he completely forgot the language. Eventually he moved to Japan because his mother is in the A.F. and he learned Japanese. He no longer speaks Spanish, which is sad, but instead he now speaks Japanese. This reflects back on him because of the fact that he moved to make a new living in another country as a child. Baldwin's view is somewhat the same. People speak the language they feel comfortable with. But the departure is when Baldwin begins to speak about creating your own language. Baldwin believes that if black English was not invented then whites would have no language to speak. Baldwin made the statement that "Now, I do not know what white Americans would sound like if there had never been black people in the United States, but they would not sound the way they sound." This would mean that the mother tongue for all who are born in the U.S. speak the same language. Yet still people classify black English differently from just plain English. I disagree with Baldwin's statement. There is also European English (which to me is proper English) that is spoken in the U.S. This language in my opinion would have been the language spoken by Americans if Black's had never came to the U.S.