Discussion Post #2
Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)
An audience is a group of people whom participate with the speaker by consuming the speaker content and responding. I’ve started with my definition for audience for clarity, because many different definitions can be held. For this discussion post I’ve chosen to use the change in views of these peers listed Aleksei Nechaev, Even Kallas, Ryan Aberle, and Sophia Hand. Starting with how my view of audience has changed, before reading Anzaldua’s work I haven’t given much thought to audience. After reading her work I now believe that audience is an integral part of writing.
Nechaev and Hand had a lot of the same ideas about audiences relationship with language. Both Nechaev and Hand felt that by sharing a piece of her culture Anzaldua made herself relatable and draws readers in. Hand also discusses that these different audiences take away from the piece will be different because of the language and cultural barriers. “The audience that understands truly her point of view would be people who relate to those blurred cultural and linguistic lines.” (Hand)
Ryans’ view of audience didn’t change much, but he exposed to the idea of speaking to multiple audiences at once much like the rest of us. Kallas pointed out in addition that by speaking to multiple audiences that you could get more points across as a result. Kallas also points out that you don’t have to speak directly to an audience. That last point is plain in light of my reading of Anzaldua’s work. I say that because I don’t belong to any specific audience that she intended to reach but her words still carried weight. I believe they carried weight because she appealed to those that dealt with hardship.
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