Comments on: Dictionary Personality

By: bdasfo

bdasfo — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:59:40 +0000

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By: Christa Zrenner

Christa Zrenner — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:06:25 +0000

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Dictionary Personality

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:36:55 +0000

So what’s wrong in having more than one personality? I think we should diversify ourself when needed.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:31:14 +0000

Hi Toni,

If you want more information, here’s the works cited page from the paper I wrote. Hope you find it helpful.

By: Elliott Back

Elliott Back — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 02:38:04 +0000

This article was written by Sunny on Wednesday, December 1st, 2004. The title is simply “Dictionary Personality,” and the “journal” is simply this blog, EB Asia. If you’d like more information, please email me.

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:48:50 +0000

Hi,

I’m a grad student in psychology, and cultural psych research is my interest. Can you give me information about the article, like the title, authors, date, journal?

By: Rich Brewer

Rich Brewer — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 20:51:33 +0000

Sunny — I really enjoyed the piece as well. Back when I was at Cornell (’88-’92), the language lab was in the basement of Morrill Hall, and all of us Asian Studies majors would take up residence trying to learn just one more (in my case) Japanese word or grammatical pattern. Twelve years later, I realize that when it comes to real intercultural communication and understanding, language is often the least of one’s problems. Cultural appreciation and really connecting with one’s listener is 100% more important than having that latest impressive vocab word at the ready. Most American men who go to Japan and start rattling off sentences to anyone who’ll listen eventually catch onto the fact that a) they’re not speaking like those of similar age/position around them, and are probably using female forms of speech, as we were taught, and b) most Japanese men over 30, unless they are a professional public speaker or TV anchor, usually get through the day saying far, far less than foreigners realize. Anyway, if I could go back to my time in Ithaca, I’d write more papers on language and culture (not that many people would want to read them, but what can you do)? Thanks again.

By: ESWN

ESWN — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:56:18 +0000

Here is the even stranger part. I went to a British school elemetary school in Hong Kong, then I attended high school in Australia and after that I lived in the United States in various parts of that country. This means that I can adopt multiple English accents. Most friends and co-workers don’t realize that until they hear me talk to someone from elsewhere. They would tell me afterwards, “Suddenly, you became a completely different person!” It is more than the pronunciation or the choice of words. Its involves a shift in certain attitudes.

By: Elliott Back

Elliott Back — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:59:59 +0000

This is a really good piece, Sunny! I know when I’m speaking Spanish my personality will change–although it’s really hard to quantify. The most obvious change is intonation. You’d never believe my Spanish “voice” is my own.