Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language Colin M. Caplan is that most information available

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Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language Colin M. Caplan is that most information availableIn this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapon. Some explore the way power and privilege affect language learning, especially the shame and exclusion often felt by non native English speakers in a white, settler, colonial nation. Some confront the pain of losing a mother tongue or an ancestral