Carolina Plano

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For this series, I picked the sentence "Foreign words are not foreign to those who speak them." from the book Native Tongues by Charles Berlitz and recorded various speakers saying it. I used this as a base to explain in a visual way three different theories about language.

i-language: I stands for individual, internal, intensional. This linguistic approach studies the mental grammars of each individual person.

e-language:E stands for external. This approach studies a collection of knowledge from a specific community.

p-language: P stands for platonic. This approach assumes that "languages" are perfect entities that don't change and are independent of the speakers.

  • Inkjet printing on Fabriano paper
  • 7.5" x 23.5"
  • 2010
Carolina Plano — 2010-2025