Comparing Gloria Anzaldua And American Usage By David Foster Wallace

In a world like today populated with over 7 billion people who share different forms of languages, vernaculars, and dialects are more common than ever, making it more than ever to be able to communicate successfully across languages and cultures. This essay will examine the advantages of learning other languages for individuals. To answer this question, we turn to the insights of two influential authors: Gloria Anzaldua and David Foster Wallace. Gloria Anzaldua, a Chicana writer, and activist wrote extensively about the complexities of language and identity and believes that learning an additional language may provide a variety of social and personal advantages. David Foster Wallace an author of the book “Authority and American Usage”.

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Anzaldua's use of language in these passages serves to emphasize the importance of recognizing and valuing linguistic diversity. Anzaldua also highlights the importance of preserving the many languages and dialects as Anzaldua herself writes “ From school, the media, and job situations, I've picked up standard and working-class English, from Mamacrine Locha, and from reading Spanish and Mexican literature, I've picked up Standard Spanish and Standard Mexican Spanish.” Gloria Anzaldua is highlighting how her personal experience in acquiring various languages and dialects has expanded her linguistic and cultural knowledge it shows the personal advantage of being multilingual. I fully support the decision and backed her claim of justifying the fact how the importance of learning multiple languages can help you build a stronger sense of belonging and understanding among various societies is facilitated by learning other languages, vernaculars, or dialects, which offer doors to new cultures and ways of

David Wallace contends that it is beneficial to embrace and study other dialects and languages. David Wallace states “ This reviewer's opinion, though, is that both students and SWE are better served if the teacher makes his premises explicit, licit and his argument overt, presenting himself as an advocate of SWE's utility rather than as a prophet of its innate superiority.” In other words, Wallace believes that If Educators, for example, teachers and professors be more transparent about their views and arguments for the effectiveness of Standard western English, as a tool to better understand one another and connect ends with students to better facilitate the usage of the language. I support Wallace's decision of wanting to advocate for the educator to be more intuitive in making standard western English more useful instead of just having it and questioning the use of