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A) How does your assigned text dramatize or otherwise support Pinker's argument that language is a basic human instinct?

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A) How does your assigned text dramatize or otherwise support Pinker's argument that language is a basic human instinct?

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In the case of Jordan’s essay we see Black English is something that black people speak amongst each other, this is a language we grew up speaking and it became second nature for us to talk as we did. It is then we get into school and work where we are told that are language was invalid and not professional. We then are force to either suppress it to be understood at school and work.

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 B) In this text, how is language shown to be connected to other human needs, instincts, and experiences?

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 B) In this text, how is language shown to be connected to other human needs, instincts, and experiences?

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The language used is evident of how black people have adapted English in their own way throughout history through their shared experiences throughout history. The author mentions how any culture that speaks English will develop a different nomenclature due to their experiences using the language, Black English is one such result.

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C) What does this text show us about the relationship between language and identity, both personal and communal?

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C) What does this text show us about the relationship between language and identity, both personal and communal?

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Jordan shows that language is very important and identifies a series of general principles that govern the grammar, syntax, and usage of Black English. She explains here that Black English is who they are and what they know and it makes them, them. She goes into how it plays a role in their community and says “Black English is not exactly a linguistic buffalo, but we should understand its status as an endangered species, as a perishing, irreplaceable system of community intelligence, or we should expect its extinction, and, along with that, the extinguishing of much that constitutes our own proud and singular identity.”