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"How to tame a Wild Tongue" By Gloria Anzaldua - Coggle Diagram
"How to tame a Wild Tongue"
By Gloria Anzaldua
Section 3: Linguistic Terrorism
"If a person, Chicana or Latina, has a low estimation of my native tongue, she also has a low estimation of me."
"By the end of this century, English, and not spanish will be the mother tongue of most Chicanos and Latinos."
Ethnic identity is twin to linguistic identity
I am my language
Section 1: Overcoming the Tradition of Silence
En boca cerrada no entran moscas
"Flies don't enter a closed mouth" is a saying I kept hearing when I was a child"
"Chicano Spanish is not incorrect, it is a living language"
Section 2: Chicano Spanish
"We use anglicisms, words borrowed from English"
Still using words from the Spanish language that have been evolved out
Distinguishing them as a distinct people
Dentist Ancedote
Literal and Symbolic to taming a wild tongue
"We are going to have to do something about your tongue"
Borders between nations, cultures, classes, genders, languages
Importance of language, linquistic and cultural identity
:"Wild Tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out."
Purpose: To allow readers to experience what it is like to live in the bordered walls of texas
Rhetorical devices: Ancedotes and parallel structure