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Correlations Between Language, Identity, And Discrimination Among Spanish Speakers In Providence, Katherine Rennie
Correlations Between Language, Identity, And Discrimination Among Spanish Speakers In Providence, Katherine Rennie
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This study examines how discrimination based on language hinges on the importance of language to one’s personal identity. In order to understand the connections between discrimination and language, the literature on discrimination and its various components is investigated. Scholars’ findings concerning the connection between language and identity are then examined. A discussion will follow of the neuropsychology of language and of the scientific argument that human language came about in response to an evolutionary need for symbolic communication. These themes create a framework for the following study. In order to understand the experience of discrimination as a result of language …