English 3, Post 6, 'How can your major make the world a better place'

Dear Earthlings from FCQF!

Tell us why and how what you study (you're major) can make the world a better place. Include this information:

·        How can your major affect the world?

·        How can you see yourself in this process?

·        What makes your major something that contributes to the world’s benefit?

Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post

Word Count: 150 words

As usual, I will leave you with this week's sample entry from my own study programs ('English Literature' and Linguistics' and 'English Pedagogy'),


No. I think English Linguistics, Literary Studies and Pedagogy do not straightforwardly affect the world at all. No. Linguistics and Literary Studies are not going to save us from any natural force or danger. Linguistics is a science of language and only committed to describing it. Literary Studies only represents, nowadays, intellectual escapism and nothing else, unfortunately. 

The only way Linguistics affect the world is combined with other Social Sciences such as Anthropology, then an 'inter-disciplinary field' emerges (Linguistic Anthropology). Literary Studies, as a discipline, on the other hand, only affects the world when it has something politically uncomfortable to say. In other words, when authors, politically commit to a particular and singular cause. 

Literary Studies and Linguistics, paradoxically are two disciplines that work with the human being and their language footprints on the world. At the same time, both disciplines require a lot of time being secluded in your epistemological thoughts on language (in the case of Linguistics) so as to devise theories on how language works or to describe the world (in the case of Literary Studies) from a very comfortable and 'free-from-any-social-stain' position. 

Cheers!

What about you?

Comments

  1. Angela7 June 2021 at 11:32

    Maybe it’s not that related, but I feel that the language, the theory of any movement is important, without writing I would definitely be lost, being a woman I have taken much more the importance of reading my ancestors.

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  2. Daniela Baeza11 June 2021 at 19:24

    Maybe your major by itself doesn't affect all world, but it does for your students :)

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  3. Johanna Rivera11 June 2021 at 19:43

    It is an interesting point of view, although it does not make the world a better place, I think it is important in its own way because the study of a language helps to better understand it and, in this way, be able to transmit that knowledge to whoever needs it.

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  4. Yamilí González12 June 2021 at 23:59

    I had never thought of it like that. Oral communication in any language is important and indispensable, is it the essence of the human being or not?

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  5. Ignacio Marchant14 June 2021 at 20:09

    although, as you say, language cannot change the world, it serves to break the communication barrier and unite different cultures.

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  6. isadora14 June 2021 at 22:31

    Without the language it would not be possible for us to communicate, at least not clearly, it will always be necessary to preserve it

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  7. Javiera Pedraza16 June 2021 at 17:04

    It's always useful to learn some language and knowing english opens many doors for you.

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  8. Rocío Jara17 June 2021 at 13:40

    language is fundamental for communication and I think it is interesting to study it in depth.

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  9. Williams Otárola17 June 2021 at 14:34

    It may be that this branch of knowledge needs more time and studies so that it can be transformed into something more practical for humanity.

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  10. Anonymous18 June 2021 at 12:19

    Undoubtedly, thanks to linguistics we can communicate in an elegant, correct and concrete way.

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  11. Ariel18 June 2021 at 14:29

    I think that Linguistics sciences affect and make a better world, but in other form that is more intangible.

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  12. Joaquin Meza S18 June 2021 at 17:26

    I think language or linguistics has already changed the world and now it has been left aside

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  13. Millaray Avelin25 June 2021 at 12:12

    What you say is very interesting. I think that both linguistics and literature give rise to new world for all people, being key to developing ways of thinking and seeing the world.

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  14. Benjamin Leal Zapata5 July 2021 at 11:30

    Omg You have an interesting way of writing, I love it.

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  15. Javier Romo7 July 2021 at 17:00

    English is a wonderful way to communicate

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  16. Anonymous30 July 2021 at 08:01

    language is the way to communicate, it is very valuable to humans!

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  17. Anonymous30 July 2021 at 08:01

    language is the way to communicate, it is very valuable to humans

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