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Sign Language and Class Status in "Lingua Franca"

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Sign Language and Class Status in "Lingua Franca"

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In the story "Lingua Franca" there are a variety of social displays of class status, which are explored as the narrator is forced to come to terms with a world that is changing to exclude her. One of the ways that they showed class status which was interesting to me was that the wealthy had servants to carry their belongings so that their hands would be free to sign language. The story shows this in the following quote: "But the dictionary filled the bag and only a small space remained. Mist was not about to be seen walking through the town square carrying something in her hand, like those women one couldn't converse with in the streets because they had no servants to carry their ling-carts on shopping days" (McDonnell 203) That idea is interesting because it's such a succinct way of showing privilege. The poor don't have a 'voice', they carry their weight and the weight of the wealthy.

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Intentionality and Perception in "Story of Your Life"

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Intentionality and Perception in "Story of Your Life"

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I first watched Arrival for a linguistics class for a lesson on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which refers to the idea that the language you speak affects your perception of the world around you. In "Story of Your Life", the idea of perception being affected by language is accomplished from the beginning, from the shape of the heptapods. This is evident in the line: "...at no point did it ever turn around. Eerie, but logical; with eyes on all sides, any direction might as well be 'forward'" (Chiang 96). It's not even just that language affects cognition, it's that body structure affects language which affects perception. I also found the idea of different written and spoken languages interesting. The idea of a "wasted" second channel of language makes so much sense that it makes the way we communicate seem alien.

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