“…Reimagining language beyond the articulators of a sagittal diagram, however, has not been the traditional focus of applied linguistics. Language acquisition has largely been viewed as a highly individualized psycholinguistic process (Larsen-Freeman, 2020)…Post-humanism opens applied linguistics up to the notion that communication occurs not just between humans, but also with non-human interlocutors (Lau, 2022). This can include forming relationships with technology (van Lier, 2004) or the land itself (Chung & Chung Arsenault, 2023). But what do we really know about land, the place that plants call home?
By Landguaging a territory, we can more clearly identify what is autochthonous (indigenous) or allochthonous (non-indigenous) to our landscape, acknowledging the limitations of our knowledge, and raising ethical questions regarding ecosystem diversity and maintenance. For my own part, I am continually confronting how little I know about the land I live on.”
The entire entry can be read here: https://bild-lida.ca/blog/uncategorized/landguaging-with-plants-the-dandelion-project-by-rhonda-chung/
BILD is a critical sociolinguistic blog started by members of McGill University's Department of Integrated Studies in Education with the goal of discussing our language experiences in the multilingual setting of Montreal.