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 LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 LANGUAGE AND MEDIA

Introduction

A language is a structured system of communication used by humans,

based on speech and gesture (spoken language), sign, or often writing. The

structure of language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary.

Many languages, including the most widely-spoken ones, have writing systems

that enable sounds or signs to be recorded for later reactivation. Human language

is unique among known systems of animal communication in that it is not

dependent on a single mode of transmission (sight, sound etc.), it is highly variable

between cultures and across time, and affords a much wider range of expression 

than other system. It has the properties of productivity and displacement, and

relies on social convention and learning.

Depending on philosophical perspectives regarding the definition of

language and meaning, when used as a general concept, “language” may refer to

the cognitive ability to learn and use systems of complex communication, or to

describe the set of rules that makes up these systems, or the set of utterances that

can be produced from those rules.

Language and Culture

Anthropologists speak of the relations between language and culture. It is

indeed more in accordance with reality to consider language as a part of culture.

Culture is here being used, as it is throughout this article, in the anthropological

sense, to refer to all aspects of human life insofar as they are determined or

conditioned by membership in a society. The fact that people eat or drink is not in

itself cultural; it is a biological necessity for the preservation of life. That they eat

particular foods and refrain from eating other substances, though they may be

perfectly edible and nourishing, and that they eat and drink at particular times of

day and in certain places are matters of culture, something “acquired by man as a member of society,” according to the classic definition of culture by the English

anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor.

As thus defined and envisaged, culture covers a very wide area of human

life and behaviour, and language is manifestly a part, probably the most important

part, of it.Although the faculty of language acquisition and language use is innate

and inherited, and there is legitimate debate over the extent of this innateness,

every individual’s language is “acquired by man as a member of society,” along

with and at the same time as other aspects of that society’s culture in which people

are brought up. Society and language are mutually indispensable. Language can

have developed only in a social setting, however this may have been structured,

and human society in any form even remotely resembling what is known today or

is recorded in history could be maintained only among people utilizing and

understanding a language in common use.

Language and Society

 Language is central to social interaction in every society, regardless of

location and time period. Language and social interaction have a reciprocal

relationship: language shapes social interactions and social interactions shape anguage. Sociolinguistics is the study of the connection between language and society

and the way people use language in different social situations. It asks the question,

“How does language affect the social nature of human beings, and how does social

interaction shape language?” It ranges greatly in depth and detail, from the study of

dialects across a given region to the analysis of the way men and women speak to each

other in certain situations.

The basic premise of sociolinguistics is that language is variable and ever-changing. As

a result, language is not uniform or constant. Rather, it is varied and inconsistent for

both the individual user and within and among groups of speakers who use the same

language. People adjust the way they talk to their social situation. An individual, for

instance, will speak differently to a child than he or she will to their college professor.

This socio-situational variation is sometimes called register and depends no only on

the occasion and relationship between the participants, but also on the participants’

region, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, and gender.

One way that sociolinguists study language is through dated written records. They

examine both hand-written and printed documents to identify how language and

society have interacted in the past. This is often referred to as historical

sociolinguistics: the study of the relationship between changes in society and changes

in language over time.

 

Language and Media

Media linguistics is the linguistic study of language use in the media. It studies the

functioning of language in the media sphere, or modern mass communication

presented by print, audio-visual, digital, and networked media. Media linguistics

investigates the relationship between language use, which is regarded as an interface

between social and cognitive communication practice, and public discourse conveyed

through media. Media linguistics includes the use of the media as a source of both

historical and contemporary data for research. It is critical in examining regional

language and regional dialect models of media involving the portrayal of society and

culture. Media linguistics is crucial for understanding how the media broadcasts

language ideologies and is able to strengthen representation of a less common,

minority language or maintain representation of a dominant language.

Media language is used in second language courses given its ties to culture and its

surrounding context as well as its role in exposing students to native-speaker syntax

and vocabulary technical medium (or device) can have different communication forms, so it is not enough to just study the medium. This is even more apparent with the

emergence of new media.

Language and media ideologies intertwine in complex ways. People’s ideas about

different communicative media and different media functions shape the ways they use

these media, similar to how language ideologies impact the way people speak. Some

scholars found that the perception of message in new media environments was highly

influenced by ideologies surrounding the generic type. 

CONCLUSION

Language is a vital part of human connection. Although all species have their ways of

communicating, humans are the only ones that have mastered cognitive language

communication. Language allows us to share our ideas, thoughts, and feelings with others. It

has the power to build societies, but also tear them down. Social changes produce changes in

language. This affects values in ways that have not been accurately understood. Language

incorporates social values. Language is a part of culture, and through it, we can express

cultural beliefs and values, and that the specific usages of a given word are peculiar to a

language and its relationship with culture. Language is a product of the thought and behaviour

of a society media. They provide an easily accessible source of language data for research and

teaching purposes. Media usage reflects and shapes both language use and attitudes in a

speech community. For second language learners, the media may function as the primary—or

even the sole—source of native-speaker models.

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2.SociolinguBasics.

http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/sociolinguistics/sociolinguistics/.

3.“Media Linguistics”. Zurich University of Applied Sciences. December 7, 2020. 

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