This year’s nominees for Best Picture include three films that go beyond incorporating “foreign” languages into the script and instead integrate three specific multilingual perspectives into the storyline, making language as prominent as the plot. Killers of the Flower Moon, Past Lives, and Anatomy of a Fall each demonstrate how language can enhance the characters, […]
As National Human Rights Day comes upon us (December 10th), we consider the Linguistic Human Rights of individuals within and outside of our communities.
Orientations (what we do) and ideologies (what we believe) can intersect to have different outcomes depending on the combination of ideological orientations, especially for those who identify as multilinguals versus those who do not.
Orient: (Merriam Webster, collegiate dictionary, 2021) 1: to direct toward the interests of a particular group 2: to set right by adjusting to facts or principles I travel a fair amount (or I did before the worldwide pandemic). Last trip I took (pre-COVID 19) was to Mexico. When I travel I do my research. I look up […]
Who “gets” to be identified as multilingual?