The Student's Linguistic and Cultural Identity

 Like cultural identity, linguistic identity tends to be examined in the context of cultural communication, globalization, and pragmatic message exchange. However, education and professional endeavors are of no lesser importance for linguistic identity. Any speaker may be identified by their coherent use of terminological vocabulary, while their linguistic identity is continuously nourished by reading and other cognitive and cultural experiences. For the modern student, an important part of their linguistic identity is the language of instruction, which, a) is not necessarily also the student’s native language; b) may change in the course of education, due to academic mobility. Cultural identity consists of the interpretation and exploration of the signs belonging to various semiotic systems, in territorial, national, and global contexts.