Document Type
Issue Area Four
Abstract
As I reflected on the direction I would take in writing this paper, I remembered the incident I shared. Since my field of study is communication, I thought it would be a good place to begin discussing my perspectives on ethnicity and its impact on my view of society. In his writings, Benjamin Whorf (1956), following extensive studies of the Hopi, proposed a theory based on the relationship between language and culture. He concluded that a person's vocabulary and ability to communicate is dependent on the culture of that person. If we consider language and culture as components of ethnicity, Whorf s hypothesis becomes a measure of our understanding of ourselves and our ethnicity, and how we then relate that self-understanding to an understanding of others. Our culture is not only our literature and art, but, more fundamentally, our rituals and mores.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
88
Last Page
90
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1997 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Day, Jim
(1997)
"Understanding Speech, Language Differences to Gain Sensitivity to Other Ethnicity,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 29.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol7/iss1/29
