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Language As Function Or Fashion? Multilingual Identity Formation Through Korean Language Learning, Hannah C. Cho
Language As Function Or Fashion? Multilingual Identity Formation Through Korean Language Learning, Hannah C. Cho
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This research examines identity in relation to the Korean language learning experiences of non-Korean and ethnic Korean learners. Based on participant observation and interviews done in Toronto and an international online survey, I use a language-ideological perspective to look at why and how people choose to learn (or not learn) a particular language. Specifically, I analyze how nationalist, functionalist and cosmopolitan language ideologies position learners in various ways and in turn, affect their sense of ethnic, cultural and other forms of identity. I show how these ideologies are interrelated and have different effects on how the identities of non-Koreans and …
The Sin Of Skin: Color And ‘Other’ In The Greco-Roman World, Grace Gill
The Sin Of Skin: Color And ‘Other’ In The Greco-Roman World, Grace Gill
Senior Theses and Projects
Many Scholars have denied the presence of racial categorizing in European Antiquity. Though there was no institutionalized system of ‘racial oppression’ like we are familiar with in today’s society, I contend that there are cultural precursors of ‘race’ in the Greco-Roman world, otherwise known as ‘proto-race’. All societies have means to categorize people and put them into hierarchies - this is a major focus in the field of sociology. I propose that color-symbolic language was used to make distinctions amongst and between people; further that by analyzing the context within which these ‘color- words’ were referenced, it illuminates the importance …
Where Do We Go From Here? Exploring The Shifts In Linguistic And Cultural Identities For Latvian-Americans, Ariana Veronika Ule
Where Do We Go From Here? Exploring The Shifts In Linguistic And Cultural Identities For Latvian-Americans, Ariana Veronika Ule
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Material Politics Of The Bicycle, Joshua David Rotbert
Material Politics Of The Bicycle, Joshua David Rotbert
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Beginning with a focus on the material and semiotic dimensions of the bicycle, as well as the proprietary linguistic and epistemological conventions that surround the bicycle mechanic, this project explores how such concepts intersect with notions of class, identity, resistance, and belonging within the ethnographic context of a contemporary urban bicycle repair shop.