Oh God, YES! Distinction *sociologist-in-training bows in direction of dead French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu* among people who study comics. It's also why the humanists and the social scientists, even when they both study comics, don't as a rule seem to like each other.
As for language...yeah, it's frustrating the way that academics working on precisely the same topics are walled off from each other by language barriers. Interestingly, I've heard that in the STEM fields English has already won as the lingua fraca. The humanities and social sciences, perhaps for reasons of ideology, don't completely fall in line behind one language.
*curious* How far along are you in your dissertation? (Actually, come to think of it, how do PhD programs in Belgium work, anyway? >_< ) I'd love to read what you've written!
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Date: 2010-01-01 11:38 pm (UTC)As for language...yeah, it's frustrating the way that academics working on precisely the same topics are walled off from each other by language barriers. Interestingly, I've heard that in the STEM fields English has already won as the lingua fraca. The humanities and social sciences, perhaps for reasons of ideology, don't completely fall in line behind one language.
*curious* How far along are you in your dissertation? (Actually, come to think of it, how do PhD programs in Belgium work, anyway? >_< ) I'd love to read what you've written!