Dialects Opposed to Languages. Text-Wrestling Essay on Gloria Anzalduas story "How to Tame a Wild Tongue?"

Dialects, Opposed to Languages In the essay titled "How to Tame a Wild Tongue," Gloria Anzaldua is saying that her language has a lot to do with identity. She speaks many different forms of Spanish, as well as English, and thinks that she is judged by the way she speaks. I thought that many of the ways she spoke were more of different dialects than different languages. I know I speak a different dialect of …

…then it's "officially" another language. That's why sometimes different languages can be much more similar than two dialects spoken in the same country. This could be happenning in her case, especially with the pressure she feels to speak Spanish and English in the same country. In the end, I guess Anzaldua is speaking both different languages, and dialects. This decision is based on who is being spoken to, where she is speaking, and the situation.