What is an audience? Is it a room filled with people watching a play or movie? Is it your three friends listening to you tell them about your day? To me, an audience is anyone who listens to or watches a story happen. Your audience, when it comes to writing, should be whoever you intend your writing to reflect on. It should be whoever you want your story to speak to.
In Anzaldua’s “How To Tame a Wild Tongue” I can understand how she is trying to speak to people of her background and culture through the way she speaks and addresses her audience.
After reading these texts, my view of audience has become more clear. I’ve learned to understand how people can speak to different groups and types of people at once and my understanding of audience increased.
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5 replies on “Prompt 4; 02-02-2020”
I also learned from the texts how people can speak to more than one audience in writing. I do have one question for you. Did you understand what the documentary and the text have in common? And if you did could you explain what that is?
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I agree with your definition of audience. I feel like it is very broad. I also agree with you about this text provoking thought that the audience can be multiple people at once.
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I like the simplistic view as well. It’s nice to not have things dug too deep. Sometimes it is as as simple as it sounds and yes, it’s just a very broad thing.
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Ceci, yep, I don’t think audience is really all that complicated, Anzaldua clearly had the intention of expressing herself in her own way through 2 languages and up to 8 dialects. It’s no wonder why she might have felt opposition from foreigners and community members. You kind of feel like an outsider when others are speaking a language you don’t understand or vice versa.
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I comply agree with you people can speak entirely different languages and get along its the great ability of human kind. we can turn anyone into a audience.
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