Codemeshing use the way people already speak and write and help them be more rhetori-cally effective. It do include teaching some punctuation rules, attention to mean-ing and word choice, and various kinds of sentence structures and some standard
I like that he said "some standard English", I also really like the term code meshing and I agree with the concept.
Code meshing be everywhere. It be used by all types of people. It allow writ-ers and speakers to bridge multiple codes and modes of expression
Code meshing also adds individuality.
But since so many teachers be jackin up code switching with they “speak this way atschool and a different way at home,” we need a new term. I call it CODE MESHING!
Being forced to code switch can Harm your Creativity and it ends up being sort of like a "Borrowed Voice" Instead of your own voice and creativity shining.
: Standard language ideology insist that minority peoplewill never become an Ivy League English department chair or president of HarvardUniversity if they dont perfect they mastery of standard English.
Sad but very true.
Instead of prescribing how folks should write or speak, I say we teach languagedescriptively. This mean we should, for instance, teach how language functionswithin and from various cultural perspectives. And we should teach what it taketo understand, listen, and write in multiple dialects simultaneously.
I agree, it's more inclusive.
You cant mix no dialects at work; how would peeps whoaint from yo hood understand you?” They say, “You just gotta use standard Eng-lish.” Yet, even folks with good jobs in the corporate world dont follow no standardEnglish.
Forcing people to get rid of Dialects and Teaching only Standard English feels like Assimilation.
Everybody mix the dialect they learn athome with whateva other dialect or language they learn afterwards. That’s howwe understand accents; that’s how we can hear that some people are from a Pol-ish, Spanish, or French language background when they speak English. It’s howwe can tell somebody is from the South, from Appalachia, from Chicago or anyother regional background. We hear that background in they speech, and it’s oftenexpressed in they writin too
This personally happens to a lot of my friends and family, especially in POC communities where English can be your second language, you learn slangs and such from friends and then incorporate in the way you speak English and oftentimes you have an accent when speaking english.
Black English dont make it own-self oppressed. It be negative views aboutother people usin they own language,
I definitely agree that its the negative views about other people using their own language/ dialect.
And it do happen—ashe know—when folks dont get no jobs or get fired or whatever cuz they talk andwrite Asian or black or with an Applachian accent or sound like whatever aint thestatus quo.
This made me really sad because of how true it is, my mom didn't get hired for certain jobs because of her name and slight accent.