October 2, 2008
Jim Schulz
The handout on "language" gives a person various perspectives on language, perspectives I would never have even thought of. Our discussion in class was quite interesting but there was a lot to absorb and I'm not sure I quite understood everything. I think I understand how language can control certain things, how language identifies reality or even how English makes government easier to understand. Basically I feel it is a way of communicating a point, how else would a person know about something. On the other hand is English the only language that can make government easier to communicate? It was also mentioned that English doesn't have limitations and that English is used as a way of control. I'm not sure I quite grasp what is meant with these thoughts and I will need to do some more reading in this area to understand better.
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I'm glad that you're open to more exploration of this difficult but fascinating discussion of language and power. The idea is that the colonizing power, in removing the native language, removes modes of expression and the culture of the colonized. The colonized, therefore, loses its truths, which are, of course, constructed in language.
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