Sunday, September 9, 2012
What to do?
How can I let students know that people will question their intelligence if they speak in a dialect? It is the cold, hard, truth. In this class, we all may be accepting of dialects and we may not think that someone who speaks in dialect is less intelligent. But this class is not what I would consider "the real world." Society is a lot less tolerant...and yeah, that sucks.
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This is sort of a cold hard fact, Sally - which turns this into a rhetorical issue, as I see it. That is, students do need to learn the ways that society responds to dialect differences (something most non-standard dialect speakers need little education in) but all of us, those who speak something closer to the standard and those who don't, need a basic understanding that the preconceptions around those issues are based on misinformation.
ReplyDeleteDere's no escapin' it.