inquiry of dialect by Gloria Naylor

A Question of Language by Gloria Naylor

A Question of Language by Gloria Naylor

Written dialect Inferior to voiced Language

Our language abilities clearly depend on a variety of cognitive processes such as attention, pattern recognition, memory, and reasoning. According to Naylor, the “written word is inferior to the spoken,” which uses the “sight, sound, smell and touch” of the moment. To exemplify how the same word can have different meanings, she describes the moment when she became aware of the word “nigger.”

Words Themselves Are Innocuous; It is the agreement that Gives them factual Power

Words are ...