by Monika Hirmer and Giridhar Rao | Jan 1, 2021 | Decolonial Subversions, English, Esperantic Studies Foundation, Linguistic justice, University
Monika begins. Thinking of linguistic justice and decolonisation brings me back to one humid summer afternoon – it must have been around 2010-11 – when, sitting in the living room of an apartment-block in the South Indian city of Hyderabad, I was engrossed in my first...
by Mark Fettes | Nov 16, 2020 | English, Esperantic Studies Foundation, Linguistic justice
Imagine being involved in a court case that takes place in a language you have trouble following or expressing yourself in. Imagine finding yourself on a hospital ward where no one understands anything you say. Imagine living in a country for all of your life and...
by Humphrey Tonkin | Oct 19, 2020 | English, Esperantic Studies Foundation, Linguistic justice
There’s a lot about language that we don’t understand – or willfully ignore. For example, there’s much controversy about where language came from, who invented it, and why. Did we create language because we had the organs of speech and the desire to speak, or did we...
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