Week 12 Returning to our Readings
- No one could see the color blue until modern times
The color blue shares the aspect about how the color is the nest added to the color family even though it’s been around since the beginning, but it just never had a name for it. The color blue proves the facts being this with writers not describing the sea as blue or how they don’t refer the sky as blue either. It also shows us how in other countries they have very specific names for the same color even with the slightest change in it.
The color blue was very provocative to me because the amount of information along with the abstract idea about the possibility of there still being other colors out there that we cannot see still or haven’t gotten a name for the is crazy to think about. It still weird for me to think about how artist and writers would try and describe the color as something we all clearly know it not. Then it’s more understanding because we see them trying to make sense of the world around them will the little information that have at their disposal just like we do now still in the world.
- Discourse Community
Discourse community is being described here as a way the people with similar interest reach out to each other to share their ideas and thoughts about topics that they have in common. also, these discourse communities do not just reach out to local groups only. They stretch from a college campus to across countries. They are just ways to share how we all bond over the things we enjoy.
This topic was by far the subliminal main topic of the whole semester to me. Discourse Community was very important to me because it isn’t just connecting with people with the same interest, but it’s also given the base way to genres in a way. Okay hear me out, I say this because the point of discourse communities by definition is “people, members of a community, who share a common interest and who use the same language, or discourse, as they talk and write about that interest.” this is exactly what a genre is!! (which they do cover the similarity in the reading) Therefore, it was so important it’s just giving the term “genre” to a public sense that takes you away from strict stories or information to a more of a community outreaching way of writing.
- How Language Shapes Our Perception of Reality
This article really goes into how words are not always translated so easily across other languages. English speakers from different countries have the same base group of words but we still have slang that’s unique to each demographic.
The title of this article speaks miles into what it talks about. With all those different countries having very precise descriptions to other being very vague. This makes me wonder what the culture is like compared to how their languages change. I wonder if it’s the third world countries that have multiple words or phrases like brazil does because they the same item or stuff for multiple proposes so this helps distinguish the function of the item.
- Twelve Words
‘Twelve Words” is a touching story about the bond a twin-brother and a family have with disabled family member who can only say 12 words. It’s how even with limited speech and movements they can still do the most important thing which is communicating with each other.
Twelve words was a really good story because it shows the bond that families can have with other members even if they aren’t able to communicate just how we do. It’s good to see how they all still lived a different but normal life as Dan was having problems, but it makes w=me wonder how they do after his passing and the moving on part. I do think it was important how thye did still communicate with him even though it was so limited.
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