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TEXTS
STUDIES
PROJECTS
EXPERTS

Focus:

WHERE

In what areas is language employed?

Lenses:

references to different disciplines

Scope:

as interdisciplinary as possible

Subject matter:

language used in various walks of life and present all over the place

INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS

The mother tongue is the true homeland.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Between two languages lies a third space where identity is negotiated.
— Homi K. Bhabha

Language is the key to inclusion and exclusion.
— Pierre Bourdieu

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
— George Steiner

ERL Conceptual Bank’s components:

Arguments
Settings
Implementations
Visions