Preservation of language is reasonable because in the world there is over 100 languages and all the languages have their very own culture without this the world would be plain. Without different languages people won’t have fun, and won’t want be able to stick to your own roots from which you came from. One might say that it’s reasonable to ask for one common language to the whole world. To or for better understanding of each other that can be translated back vary easily. The role of language in crating and reinforcing social distinguish such as class and gender one might think there is a specific role of language creating social distinguish. Different classes use different language so dose gender wise and your ethnicity wise. One would say that language role for authority is different from regular language used every day. People do not speak the same way to inferiors or superiors there is a difference in tone and how it’s used. Professional authorities speak in the same why as the person who is seeking opinion or advice.
A person might say it is reasonable to preserve forms of language because they are very important in life. When you think about it every language has their own history was it came from. Some forms of language has its own form of culture some examples of this is Spanish has its own holidays traditions like festivals and celebrations that make sense in the language. What I am trying to say is you can’t have a festival, holiday, tradition, in a different that it is not the original it won’t be the same. Preservation of language is also for the variety of interestingness. What I mean is you only grow up knowing one language but you hear another one that does not sound familiar and you are interested in learning thu...
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The professional authority’s speak in the same way as the person seeking opinion or advice, a person would agree to this because when authority’s talk its always talking/questioning you or anyone else. When you ask for help or if you are being asked then yes its jest like a person that is seeking help or advice because they both ask questions.
So in conclusion one would agree that preservation of languages is a very good thing to do and to keep the culture going, and a person would disagree with the world having one language, and the role of language that helps to show the gender of the person, the persons class upper, middle, lower class, and ethnicity will show how it is used to talk to in foren land and people will understand what you don’t speek that language as good as the people born into the nanguag.
For this summary I watched a video called Voices of the World: The Extinction of Language and Linguistic Diversity. The video starts off with how people believe that there are about 6, 000 languages. David Crystal talks about how with all these different languages half of them are endangered of becoming extinct. Each different language offers a different point of view of the world and culture. He said that if different languages are lost then “we lose the meaning what is it to be human.”
Throughout time the flexibility of different languages within the world today are always being tossed up in the air, if there’s disadvantages or advantages to being capable of more than one language. Although all individuals have there own opinions on being able to speak fluently with different languages, there isn’t any other way to see it besides it being a huge advantage; fully appreciating the beneficial chance to be bilingual or trilingual and sometimes even more. Communicating with more than a single voice will represent who one is and where they came from. Within two articles “Speaking in Tongues” written by Zadie Smith and “How to tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzalduas’s both demonstrate the different languages they encounter. Smith looses her chance in speaking from her voice being forced upon to change without resistance while Anzalduas’s aggressively puts up a battle to be able to keep her voice. The acceptance of varies languages isn’t in everyone category, however in time we should be more accepting and realize from articles like such that’s beneficial to learn and accept the difference languages of different cultures within the world today. Although there may be struggles upon learning the knowledge to something new, its nothing but an advantage to have with one throughout a lifetime!
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Everybody can still learn their native language, but they also have to learn the other language, so people could talk to non-native people, and they can talk back. People might bring up how hard it would be to let people decide on just one language. Yes, this would be a big issue, but the language should be one that is written and spoken like when Mcwhorter says “ Japanese is enshrined as the language of not only speech but education, literature, and journalism…”(434). He is saying that this language will be around “As long as there are Japanese people meeting and raising children in Japan” (Mcwhorter 434). There are a lot of people speaking it, it 's written, and spoken that’s why it won’t die anytime soon. If people still don’t agree with, that then the United Nations could get together and decide for everybody. Any language would be hard to learn, according to Mcwhorter that “ Each language is hard in its own way”( 433). The younger you learn the language the easier it would be to learn because it 's easier for a kid to learn a language than someone that is
...y to learn another culture, another language, to make themselves grow. We may lose our accents and regional dialects but allowing yourself to accept the dominant dialect may be the only way to share minds, cure society’s many problems, and embrace its advancements. The decline of the way of speaking can die out without sacrificing one’s culture and the ability to progress and realizing this guarantees success.
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Language is best defined by as a way of communication among individuals. In order to properly converse with others, a common language must be shared amongst them. But, it is not as easy as it may sound. Having one specific language used universally is not possible. It is not possible because each culture has their own unique background. Our ancestors spent decades upon decades perfecting a language to be used within their communities. Each language, whether it be standard American English or African American vernacular English, was made specifically for that community.
This essay will discuss the causes of language death and if endangered languages are worth saving. This essay agrees that endangered languages are worth saving and that many factors contribute to language death. Firstly the essay will explain what language death is and the meaning of what is an endangered language. Secondly discuss language death and language birth. Thirdly discuss the causes of language death. Lastly, critically discuss if endangered languages are worth saving. The purpose of this essay is to show that language death is much higher than language birth.
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