Talking Globish
A Lingua Franca, a language detached from territorial contexts, is a necessity in the multilingual Europe. Political repercussions and implications aside the "language issue" is welcome and fascinating. The workshop Talking Foreign creates a space in which the English language is freed from territorial attachement. Different language identities merge into it and English becomes Globish.
As part of our identity language plays a decisive role in our lives as well as in the formation and development of any form of human organisation. In the multilingual Europe of today language is increasingly becoming an “issue”. In many ways this “language issue” is welcome and fascinating, in other ways it is used to cover or distract from other, indirectly related, unrelated, or much more politically charged issues.
Talking Foreign considers this “language issue” from the perspective of the individual who has the need and the will to use language to communicate, taking into account both aspects, the identity that a person has formed through his first language, and the impulse and motivation that has driven him to acquire and/or master a new language, his second or a foreign language.
The workshop aims to create a space in which the acquired identity and the learning impulse work together, overcoming barriers and setting the base for communication as a “creative act”. This, for us, is the real “language issue”.