English 3, Post 5, 'How can your major make the world a better place'

 Dear Earthlings from FCQF!

Tell us why and how what you study (your major) can make the world a better place. Include this information:

·        How can your major affect the world?

·        How can you see yourself in this process?

·        What makes your major something that contributes to the world’s benefit?

Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post

Word Count: 150 words

As usual, I will leave you with this week's sample entry from my own study programs ('English Literature' and Linguistics' and 'English Pedagogy'),


No. I think English Linguistics, Literary Studies and Pedagogy do not straightforwardly affect the world at all. No. Linguistics and Literary Studies are not going to save us from any natural force or danger. Linguistics is a science of language and only committed to describing it. Literary Studies only represents, nowadays, intellectual escapism and nothing else, unfortunately. 

The only way Linguistics affect the world is combined with other Social Sciences such as Anthropology, then an 'inter-disciplinary field' emerges (Linguistic Anthropology). Literary Studies, as a discipline, on the other hand, only affects the world when it has something politically uncomfortable to say. In other words, when authors, politically commit to a particular and singular cause. 

Literary Studies and Linguistics, paradoxically are two disciplines that work with the human being and their language footprints on the world. At the same time, both disciplines require a lot of time being secluded in your epistemological thoughts on language (in the case of Linguistics) so as to devise theories on how language works or to describe the world (in the case of Literary Studies) from a very comfortable and 'free-from-any-social-stain' position.

On a positive note, Literary Studies and Linguistics are a set of disciplines meant to explain language and its use, or the usage of language to convey (communicate) a feeling, an emotion or a lasting impression of a certain phenomenon. 

 To be precise, Literary Studies and  Linguistics do not sustain life, but, they help us sustain our thoughts and world views.

Cheers!

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