Peter Le English 101 2/21/17 Summary: In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldua exposes her feelings about social and cultural difficulties that Mexican immigrants face when being raised in the United States. She establishes comparisons among English, Spanish and their variations and how cultural imperialism influence on people’s “preference” to speak one language […]
Discourse community John Swales
Summary: The main points of “The Concept of Discourse community” by John Swales are that Swales is trying to define “discourse community”. He starts off by talking about the speech community and how speech is an important aspect in a discourse community. The members in a discourse community need to know how to communicate […]