[lbo-talk] Chomsky on sociobiology

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

That being monolingual makes it harder to see language as one's  
creature because abstracting one's language and the social products  
that come with it within the system inherited by one's language is  
not something that is required in daily life.

While people who are multilingual have at least two lingual/social  
references and that helps putting things into perspective on a daily  
basis. I am not saying that monolingual people are less able than  
multilingual people. Just that concerning language and its social  
representation it should be easier for multilingual people to  
identify language as "their" creature,

Jean-Christophe

On 2006/06/07, at 1:20, Chris Doss wrote:


>
> What exactly do you mean?
>
> --- Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp>
> wrote:
>> I'd argue that monolingual people are mostly not
>> able to really
>> experience what the above means.
>>
>> Jean-Christophe