Jumping the Mile-High Language Barrier

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en_US Jumping the Mile-High Language Barrier

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en_US Presented at David F. Putnam Science Center - 127 - 3:05 PM

en_US This oral presentation will address the psychosocial effects that a language barrier creates for the individual who wants to navigate this complex global community and learn from citizens of other societies. It will also consider what such limitations on communication means for society as a whole. Using personal experiences drawn from a study away semester in France as well as interviews with well-traveled peers, I hope to show how social connections built upon an understanding of native languages are crucial to human existence and to creating an authentic relationship with others from foreign nations. By tying these experiences to the available scholarly literature by sociological theorists like George Simmel and George Herbert Mead, the presentation will emphasize the importance of learning multiple languages and the drawbacks of being monolinguistic.

en_US Robert Kostick

Contributor

Keene State College

Creator

Evelyn Cauchon

Date

2015-04-11

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12088/7523

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en_US en_US

Subject

en_US Sociology

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en_US Presentation

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