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Language Structure Influence Social Structure


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Essay

Fuentes Marta Mariela

ISFD “Prof. Alberto G. Cavero”

Profesorado de Inglés

Sociolingüística

Due Date: 2014

Language structure influences Social structure

Language is a system of communication used by a particular country or community. According to Ronald Wardhaugh in the social study of language there are several possible relationships between language and society. One of them is that linguistic structure may either influence or determine social structure. Language is a so powerful medium of communication that actually affects how individuals see the world and influences the way they think, behave and creating a cultural identity.

Culture is a set of ideas, customs, practices and beliefs which make up the societies are different from each other; the cultures are transmitted from one generation to another through the language. In this way there is a close relationship between language and culture. Therefore the language plays an important role influencing the lives of the individuals within a given society, such as Duranti (1997) states “A child separated from his blood relatives and brought up in a society different from the one in which he was born will grow up to be a member of the culture of his adoptive parents. Largely through language socialization, he will acquire the culture”. In this aspect the language may be considered as a tool that influences individual’s culture and even their thought processes and determines the way to reproduce experiences to the next generation. Following this sense and according to Duranti (1997) : “Control over linguistic means often translates into control over our relationship with the world just as the acceptance of linguistic forms and the rules for their use forces us to accept and reproduce particular ways of being in the world.” In other words, the language may generate the World in where the individuals live. The individuals would be as they are according to how they communicate and the identity would build in the way individuals speak and answer with their actions to their commitments.

In the world each society reflects differences in their linguistics systems through their culture. Therefore, the structure of a language would reflect the structure of the world as it is seen by a particular community.

According to Sapir (1929): “Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become

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