"What Is Code-Meshing?" Oregon State Guide to Grammar

This video describes the practice of bringing different “codes,” or language systems, into formal, academic, and professional writing with the idea that different dialects and vernaculars have equal complexity, value, and relevance. It was written by graduate students Anna Gayle, Christin Snyder, Rachel Higham, and Riley Yuan, performed by Graduate Teaching Assistant Rebecca Fradkin, and designed for high school and college students studying grammar, writing, or linguistics.
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[@iluvactorsfutbolers]

This is a great resource you have created here! I am a Graduate Assistant Teacher of Record at one of the Texas A&M Universities, teaching College Reading and Writing while working on my PhD in Rhetoric & Composition. I firmly believe in the equality of all Englishes, the SRTOL, and code-meshing. We also have a unit on code-switching, code-meshing, and tensions in our College Reading and Writing course, and I will show this video to my classes this term.

[@SWLF]

Thanks so much, @iluvactorsfutbolers ! We're delighted to hear that you're sharing the video with your students at A&M. Good luck with your PhD!

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[@maugog]

if you write an academic research based on slang, it would be definitively confusing, and this would create a chaos on certain facts... it's not about equality of speech forms

[@nicfarrow]

Nope. This is not clear. “Code-meshing considers …”
This is a human construct. How can a construct consider anything to be anything ?

[@SWLF]

Thanks for the sharp eye, nic. We tend to agree with you, but we'd also consider this to be a technicality that doesn't really impede understanding -- kind of like using lowercase letters for proper nouns :)