Blog 27

Literature review

One perception of voice is using voice as an individual accomplishment. Researchers believe that those who believe that their voice is their own are influenced by the individual’s accomplishments. What the researchers are referring to is that once the individual has found identity they have accomplished and found their voice. An individual can now take completely ownership of voice and call it their own. Voice and self goes hand and hand, and when students are asked to find their voice they are asked to find themselves. Individuals who find their voice are “stable, coherent” and independent. Once that voice is found then they can use it and express it in their own writing.  This will become useful when they are writing/reading any English-related materials, their tone when giving a speech, and the way they talk to others.

 Another perception of voice is letting voice be seen as rhetorical. Researchers believe that if “individuals are given the right teaching, experiences, or exposures to writing then they should be able to develop their "true self" when writing.” Technically a person does not have a true self when they are asked to write in different genres. These writers are more so writing at the moments and portray themselves in many different “true selves.” Depending on the situation writers have to write in fake voices or something they would not call their own. Voice is seen as rhetorical because when writing literature writing will become persuasive and convincing through experiences and exposures. Plato contradicts this idea because he believes that in order “to learn to speak or write better, we need also to work on being a better person." I interpret this quote as once I have become as better person mentally than I will be able to read and write better.
Another perception of voice is seeing in terms of linguistics. Linguistics is known as the structure and variation of language which includes phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. Voice in linguistics is created but tone which means how the text sounds. In writing grammar errors are considered linguistics because they are particular punctuation marks of that particular individual. These punctuation errors are linguistics because what I see as errors another person may look at it as being right. Culture has a large impact on linguistics but is interpreted differently because we are all not the same. We are all different and have different experiences through culture. Voice in linguistics is created by tone which means how the text sounds.
 Another perception of voice is having it be socially constructed.  Some researchers believe that voice is “shaped, informed, and mediated by social and cultural factors.” Humans learn and develop prior and new language and writing through social interactions. Especially in the younger generation, “researchers see how voice reflects an increasing linguistic ability to represent their experiences through the reproduction of their social and cultural worlds” as one and as a group. The way each particular person communicates through different kinds of talk which can be influenced by school, accents, and the people that surround them on a daily basis.  In a classroom setting children are shaped by their teacher. At an early age children are taught to sit in vertical rows. If the child wants to speak or ask a question, then they must raise their hand and wait until they are called on by the teacher. The classroom is shaped, and sometimes even overshadowed by ways of speaking because of social authority. Many children have different point of views but it may not be expressed unless the child raises their hand. Some children are less outspoken than others and those children may not want to speak unless the teacher calls on them their voice would be considered silenced. Depending on the reading and writing contexts some voices are stronger than others.

Discourse is located in my introduction but it also was listed in literature anaylsis. Discourse is the way a person, think, act, and speak. This connects to voice because depending on how a person interacts with their inner voice will determine how they will speak, act, and think around others. classroom is shaped like a discourse. When students are in a classroom they must act a certain way. If they call out of term or misbehave then they will get in trouble. We dont realize that we are a shaped discourse because we do it because that what we know is the right thing to do.
From this literature review it shows that there are more than just two concepts of voice. When many interpret they just look at it as being socially constructed or having your own voice. There are many others perceptions of voice such as linguistics, rhetorical, indivduality, and socially. To us humans and researchers we have noticed that noone knows the real meaning of voice. It will continue to be a debate. A debate that noone will ever win.