Showing posts with label Estonia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Estonia. Show all posts

28 January 2013

Language as exclusionary practice


The language you speak defines who will understand you. So you speak the language you think serves better to make yourself understood in any given context. Seems like a no-brainer, right? But sometimes you probably also choose a language in order to not be understood, by whoever is the excluded one in the group. It's the dynamics of this that I would like to dig into today.