Annotated Bibliography:
- Lowi, R. (2005). CodeSwitching: An Examination of Naturally Occuring Conversation. University of California Berkley . Retrieved 2017
Summary: This article evaluates the process of code-switching. It describes code switching as a process where an individual goes back and forward using different languages and tones to communicate. He shows that the “bi-lingual” notion of actually knowing two languages is not necessary to fulfill this case study. She also looks at tone and ambition, as in what is this person trying to show me through her language, is something being said in a certain way to show me how severe it was? Things like tone show significance and she proves this through her study.
Evaluate: This article is a useful tool to in preparing my own research, however, I do not speak two languages. Although there are practices that the author shows, like for instance when a person is speaking to you in a certain tone they could be revealing the value they apply to that situation. Every human being is different which makes this case interesting. How is the information which is based on language, subject to change based on the individual? That would be my own challenge to her research model. I could apply some of her practices to my paper, but it seems she based it heavily on the bi-lingual element.
2. Lysicott, J. (Writer). (2017). I am Articulate. Live performance in New York, New York.
Summary: This is a poem about a woman who talks in different forms of tone based on the people she is around at a certain time. She says she has a tone for school, when she hangs around her neighborhood, and for her family. She talks about how she faces adversity in the form of critique when she speaks in forms of broken English, she is of African American descent and talks about how she was forced to speak English and that she doesn’t care how “society” wants her to speak. She talks further about how she loves the way she speaks because she is able to be articulate on every level she talks to people on, IQ level does not matter to her, the accomplishment is being able to articulate to every level on intellect.
Evaluate: I learned a lot from this piece, even though at first I found it to be hard to follow and informal. After reading the transcript, it flows a lot better and its much easier for me to see what she was going after. She is trying to show how she speaks different forms of English, some formal, some broken, because she talks a wide range of people who do not all speak the same way. I can use a lot of the examples she gives when talking about how naturally she “code-switches” and shows how she really does face adversity when people point out how she talks. I found it important that she showed why she spoke the broken English: because the English, people want her to speak is the same language that was forced upon her ancestors during slavery in Africa.