{"id":1579,"date":"2019-03-10T18:24:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T01:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2020-11-10T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T03:04:43","slug":"being-the-being-multilingual-in-an-english-dominated-linguistic-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/2019\/03\/10\/being-the-being-multilingual-in-an-english-dominated-linguistic-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Being the Multilingual, Racialized \u201cOther\u201d in an English Dominated Linguistic Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jason at the whiteboard<\/p><\/div>\n

Consider the language and messages you process each day. As you navigate your daily routine, what language do you hear and see most frequently? For folks living in the Corvallis, Oregon, the answer is probably English. In the last month, how many times, when, and where have you been exposed to spoken words or even signs in another language? For those of us on the Oregon State University campus, you could easily overhear or may participate in a conversation in Spanish, Chinese, or Arabic in the Memorial Union or Valley Library. How does the \u201clinguistic landscape\u201d (written or spoken words you encounter in life) affect you? What do you feel and how do you react to hearing a language you don\u2019t understand? Have you been told that you don\u2019t speak English well enough?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shenanigans in Portland with Pat<\/p><\/div>\n

Jason Sarkozi-Forfinski, a PhD student in Anthropology,<\/a> wants to gain insight into the linguistic landscape students at Oregon State University are exposed to and their actions and feelings about about it, especially for students from non-English speaking countries. Jason\u2019s research involves interviewing students and community members about their experiences in the US such as: <\/span><\/p>\n