If Black English Isn T A Language Summary

In the essay “If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?”, James Baldwin argues that languages evolve based on the environments in which they are spoken. Baldwin claims that, “people evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances [...] [People from different regions] are not saying, and cannot be saying, the same things: They each have very different realities to articulate” (1). Essentially, people's environments play a large role in the way they speak their language. The different areas in which a language is spoken all have different environmental and circumstantial factors that need to be described Inhabitants of each of these areas must be able “articulate” what they see and experience in their