Elizabeth Harvey’s Reviews > The Power of Place > Status Update
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2 - The Imperial Legacy of Language
- Equates species richness & dominance gradient with linguistic diversity & dominance
- colonial languages confer advantage; local and variegated linguistic landscapes limit access to globalisation
- regionalisation of english; convergence breeds divergence
- neurological impact of languages facilitate differential meme capability and expression eg tonal languages and musicality
— Feb 24, 2024 04:43PM
- Equates species richness & dominance gradient with linguistic diversity & dominance
- colonial languages confer advantage; local and variegated linguistic landscapes limit access to globalisation
- regionalisation of english; convergence breeds divergence
- neurological impact of languages facilitate differential meme capability and expression eg tonal languages and musicality
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Elizabeth Harvey
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1 - Globals, Locals and Mobals
- demarcates global core/periphery line between wealth, power and privilege
- stratifies people as 'globals' (core), locals (periphery) and mobals (trans-national migrants; agents of change)
- locals more constrained by geographies of place, also fastest increasing demographic
- 'South Africa Paradox'; why would people want to take on characteristics of oppressors
— Feb 24, 2024 04:37PM
- demarcates global core/periphery line between wealth, power and privilege
- stratifies people as 'globals' (core), locals (periphery) and mobals (trans-national migrants; agents of change)
- locals more constrained by geographies of place, also fastest increasing demographic
- 'South Africa Paradox'; why would people want to take on characteristics of oppressors
