Langauge can include, excluded, represent, and misrepresent. While watching Fry’s Planet World documentary something that really stuck with me was “our attachment to our language is about emotion and our identity is all about emotion”. I was surprised to realise how true it was that your accent is not just vital to your identity but how […]
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The power in language and forced assimilation
Edicions La Veu del País Valencià via Compfight How does the journalist feel about forced language assimilation (i.e. the view / expectation that everyone in America must learn English) and what does she believe is the relationship between accent, identity, and power? In the Guardian Article that we read this afternoon in class, the journalist […]
My Language, My World
Why do I speak as I do? How does my language define me? I speak the as I do because of who my friends are and people I’ve met. A big part of how I speak is how I’ve been brought up by my family and what I’ve been exposed to, being in an international […]