Tre Graham 11/12/13 English 1103 Speech Community Essay I don't understand why people outside o our community

tend to considered our way o speech trash tal!ing" I say this #ecause tons o people a ter watching me play always as! me why was I tal!ing so much $un! to my de ender and as!ing me were we really a#out to ight% and I ne&er really understand #ecause me and the person rom the other team are always laughing and cutting up with each other a ter the game is o&er" 'ne part o the in(uiry piece that really helped me #ecause I ne&er really pay attention to close detail in our own speech community #ecause it is li!e second nature to me now #ut the part that was &ery help ul was the &ideo capture" The reason it was most help ul was #ecause it allowed me to actually hear the speech community rom an outside stand point instead o #eing directly apart o it all the time and I was a#le to understand some concerns that people had a#out the way we spea!" I could see their point o &iew o how it does come o &ery intimidating at irst #ut people in the community ha&e learned to adapt to this and that is why we thin! nothing o it" In e)perience in the community would #e one day I was #alling with some o my #rothers and we got into a #rawl on the court #ecause o the way we spea! in our community #ut the only pro#lem was that these people we were playing against were not a part o the community so they had not yet adapted to our way o speech so they thought that we were &ery serious and ended up getting into a #rawl on the court" *logging played a huge role #ecause I actually #egan to understand what a speech community actually was" +ithout #logging in the #eginning o the year and throughout class it would ha&e made this pro$ect more con using #ecause I wouldn't ha&e such a strong grasp on the concept" 'ne o the #log readings which really had the strongest impact would #e the reading we did on ,alcolm - how he #asically taught himsel to right in prison% this #asically showed me that no matter who you are and what your situation is you can #rea! down #arriers or de y limitations holding you #ac! rom your ultimate goal" .ay#oo! writings were also &ery help ul #ecause you were a#le to re lect on what you wrote throughout the semester and this ga&e you ood or thought when actually deciding what you were going to do or your speech community" ,y $ournals also ga&e me a start in this paper I too! some o the (uestions I had as!ed mysel in my day #oo! writings as a start to decide what I had really learned rom this in(uiry" ,y &ideo capture was &ery help ul in answering some initial (uestions I had% #ut it also raised more (uestions than it actually answered" It raised (uestions li!e why does our community

ha&e such a correlation with other sport's speech communities" It also made me wonder why we use some o slang that I still don't understand e&en #eing a part o the community" 'ne word I do not understand is when players say water a ter ma!ing a shot% #ut this pro$ect has inspired me $ust to do some more research into it so I can actually ind out where it came rom" /ntil this pro$ect I $ust used the word li!e e&eryone else #ecause e&eryone else did it and it seemed cool" 0n e)ample rom my &ideo captured would #e when you hear the phrase 1in your ace #oy1 meaning that someone was playing &ery good de ense on you #ut you $ust made a #etter shot" *as!et#all 2layers o ten re er to this as a phrase called 1Good . *etter '1" +hich means Good .e ense it was $ust #etter ' ense" +i!i #uilding as I ha&e already said #e ore what was the most help ul in actually answering some o the (uestions I had already ormulated prior to starting the pro$ect it helped me to #etter understand and see our speech community rom an outside point o &iew" 3or e)ample I was a#le to understand why people elt li!e our community was $ust a #unch o $un! tal!" E&en in the song I posted on my +4G helps the reader understand what the o&erall goal o #as!et#all is% and that is to win a championship" It also tal!s a#out how hard you ha&e to wor! to complete this ultimate goal" 0nyone apart o the #as!et#all speech community a#solutely hate losing with a passion" The term wet is commonly re erred to in #as!et#all re erring to someone ma!ing a $ump shot" This usually means that it was a clean shot and went straight in without hitting much o the rim and none o the #ac!#oard" ,y mem#ership in the #as!et#all speech community is solidi ied as o now and this is important to me #ecause 1#all is li e1 or me without #as!et#all I might #e in the streets somewhere or e&en loc!ed up li!e a lot o my amily" *as!et#all was an outlet to get away rom all o that or me" I tried so hard in school #ecause I !new i I didn't get good grades my mom would not allow me to play #as!et#all so that was a source o am#ition to me" /nli!e most people #as!et#all has always #een more than a game to me it is a passion or way o li e" This is why I am so passion a#out the speech community #ecause it is not something that you can $ust say you5re in its something that you ha&e to wor! hard or" 3or e)ample i someone says they ha&e a #urner this translates to an e)cellent shot% so or you to say that you ha&e to wor! really hard to per ect your shot" ,y mem#ership is so important to me #ecause I ha&e wor!ed #ehind o to #e a part o it% and our community is (uite di erent rom others where you can $ust $oin a clu# and may#e #e a part o the community or $ust start tal!ing in a certain way #ut with this community I lo&e #eing a part o it #ecause it is earned not gi&en" 0nother talent you gain rom #eing in the #as!et#all speech community is the talent to pic! out another a real #aller" +e can see them orm one hundred miles away" The #as!et#all speech community and this pro$ect ha&e raised my literacy awareness in ways I can't #egin to e)plain% #ut it also has gi&en me a oresight into other communities #y listening to my ellow classmates tal! a#out their own communities" I learned stu a#out di erent speech communities which I would ne&er #e ore this ha&e ta!en the

time out my day to e&en step out o my own community" So this pro$ect has raised my awareness rom that standpoint" 0lso this pro$ect has helped me to understand certain things a#out my own community that I would ha&e ne&er loo!ed into" In retrospect this pro$ect ga&e me a #ird's eye &iew a#out speech communities which helped me in my literacy $ourney"