<Articles>Language Barrier: What means Derrida's massage “I have only one language, yet it is not mine.”

Abstract

The movie Babel showed us a situation where language barriers lead us to loss of choice: monolingualism leads to such a situation. The reality of the present world has seen the widespread dominance of English; many people do not notice it and accept it. Taking for example the grammatical terms of English in Japanese education, the direct translation of the English grammatical word “adjective” into Japanese as “keiyoushi” can cause some confusion. English and Japanese have completely different grammatical structures, consequently, and especially in an educational context, it will be necessary to be sensitive to such differences and to take into consideration each language's cultural and historical background.