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Project 1: James Baldwin and His Black English
James Baldwin and His Black English
           In the article “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?,” James Baldwin asserts an impressive argument as to how Black English is not only its own language, but that it being a language reveals many things about American society. After giving a quick introduction explaining the difference between languages of the same country, he gives his argument in almost a chronological fashion; beginning with African tribesman coming to America as slaves, and ending with modern day black children in America. Baldwin also uses the rhetorical strategies ethos, pathos, and logos, as well as linguistic diversity to appeal to his readers in an attempt to augment the verisimilitude of his writing.
          Baldwin first explains that with any given language, such as French, the different regions that speak it have developed differences that are unique to their version of French.
          A Frenchman living in Paris speaks a subtly and crucially different language from that of the man living in Marseilles; neither sounds very much like a man living in Quebec; and they would all have great difficulty in apprehending what the man from Guadeloupe, or Martinique, is saying, to say nothing of the man from Senegal--although the "common" language of all these areas is French. (Baldwin)
          He uses this example to get the reader to start making a parallel relation to the idea of Black English, and to get the reader to start to think in the frame of mind that he is thinking in. Being such a logical argument that he has created, the reader is given Baldwin’s first and very powerful rhetorical device: logos.
          Logos, defined as appealing to a reader’s common sense or values, is used very effectively in this article because the argument that Baldwin is putting forth is a very logical one. The parallel can not only be applied to simply how English is spoken differently in the United States through accents (i.e. southern accent, New York accent, etc.), but even with different connotations of ‘slang’ throughout the Country. Baldwin uses logos to present the argument that language is derived from necessity, and that the circumstances that Africans faced when coming to America is just the kind of necessity that can create language.
There was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which I was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand.” (Baldwin)
Baldwin, James. "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" Books. The New York Times    Company, 1998. Web. 14 Feb.
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