115. Language and Personality: It’s me!

Two Teachers Talking™

ボクです！¡Soy yo! C'est moi! To ja! Это я! 나야! Tôi đây! 是我！ມັນແມ່ນຂ້ອຍ! So, really…how does the language we use affect…everything? Tony and Charles dive off the deep end. Luckily, they have some help from Maria Minohara, student at Osaka University, who shares her insights on bilingualism, personality, persona, and society. (And apologies to Maria and listeners for the poor recording quality of the interview.) Mentioned: Ivana Paz, "How the Language I Speak Changes My Personality" https://humanparts.medium.com/how-the-language-i-speak-changes-my-personality-73a1c19a49a7 François Grosjean, "Change of Language, Change of Personality?" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-bilingual/201111/change-language-change-personality François Grosjean and Aneta Pavlenko, "Psychology Today blog, Life as a bilingual" http://www.francoisgrosjean.ch/blog_en.html Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, Samuel D. Goslinga, Verónica Benet-Martínezb, JeVrey P. Potterc, James W. Pennebakera, "Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching." http://www.utpsyc.org/Nairan/research/bilingual.pdf Nairán Ramírez-Esparza and Adrián García-Sierra, "The Bilingual Brain: Language, Culture, and Identity" https://labclab.psychology.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1167/2015/04/Language3.pdf