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Multiculturalism and Ethnicity - 2008

2008 | 2007

Accent elimination

17/05/2008
The daughter of multilingual migrants, American artist Nina Katchadourian has been obsessed with language, translation, communication and miscommunication. In a video project called Accent Elimination she enlisted her parents to explore some of the contradictory aspects of foreign-ness and assimilation. Sian Prior spoke to Nina Katchadourian in New York.

Mother tongue, father tongue

16/02/2008
A keen proponent of bilingualism, Michael Clyne grew up with two languages, one of which -- German -- became the language he gave his daughter, to become her father tongue.