Being a HERO – Interview with Laurett Ellsworth Arenz

Q: What does the HERO’S System represent and how does it help actors? A: HERO’S stands for Health, Education, Relationships, Opportunity and Spirituality. My goal is to help people achieve balance in all of those areas. Life is complex and hard to navigate without the right tools. We can choose to figure it out on …

Iconization, erasure and fractal recursion

According to Judith Irvine and Susan Gal, the ideology of language arises because the owners and users of language are subject to the political and moral issues that pervade any given sociolinguistic field. In short, as these writers succinctly put it, seeing a language out of nowhere [i.e., objectively] it’s not possible. As a consequence, …