Can language be used as a political instrument? Language is a system of signs and meanings that usually shared by a community of people. There is no doubt that language is very important and necessary in the society. Language offers people the means for interaction and to depict ‘people‚ places and things’. (Butt and David‚ 1986) Edward Sapir (1884–1939)‚an American linguist and anthropologist‚ was the first one who proposed the idea that the power of language can influence culture and thinkings
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Jalisa Jackson Allyson Wells Media Influences on American Cultures August 21‚ 2017 The major developments in the evolution of mass media during the last century is technology. Today technology is major to society and it is what we mainly rely on vs. back in the day they only had newspapers and mail. In today’s society‚ a regular person will wake up in the morning look at their phone and check the time. After they then check the time they begin surfacing the internet to see what is happening around
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Language and Culture One’s culture affects almost all of one’s communication behaviors. I discovered an article written by Margaret Cote‚ “Language Reflects Culture‚” that reveals many of the differences between the Saulteaux language and the English language. Margaret Cote states‚ “Language determines the way a person views the world.” She describes how Indian people view things around them differently then English speaking people do. Margaret Cote says that she views the world around her in
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the center of attention as scientists utilized American Sign Language in hopes of communicating efficiently with another species. The female chimpanzee was named Washoe. While this was by no means a quick study‚ scientists patiently taught Washoe for years and by the time she was an adult‚ Washoe had been about to spontaneously and appropriately use 350 different signs. It is still under much controversy that she could effectively use this language in complex sentences‚ or if she had just learned
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The stars bring inspiration to many cultures. Several Native American tribes look to the sky for answers. They use simple observations of celestial bodies to help understand and regulate their lives. The Hopi tribe primarily watch the Sun and the Moon. They spend their time watching the objects in the sky and performing activities based on their observations. Many of the activities that they perform hold religious and cosmic significance to them. The Hopi use their given knowledge to understand important
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Immigration is an enormous and complex phenomenon; no one person or even a government can possibly detain it on their own‚ even someone who knows many immigrants‚ or is or has been an immigrant his/herself. All of us have opinions based on some mixture of personal experience‚ second-hand reports‚ and information we’ve received from several forms of ‘media’ – including newspapers‚ TV news‚ and even entertainment – that might expose us to ideas about and examples of migration. (Jeannet & Blinder‚ 2014)
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Language and Culture Fitting into a culture is not always easy; sometimes‚ obstacles appear and make it harder. Reading about the stories of both Oscar Hijuelos and Jasmin Darznik‚ the reader might recognize some of those obstacles. Both Oscar and Jasmin have been surrounded by two cultures‚ one of their families’ and the other was the American culture. From each story we can learn something; something about how language can affect a person’s life. Jasmin and Oscar have been through
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Many scholars have attempted to identify the paradoxical positioning of the Balkan region or simply Balkans. The Balkans are geographically part of Europe‚ but conceptually excluded from the Western European political and economic sphere as well as culture‚ beliefs and values. The “Balkan construction” was part of the Western Hegemonic discourse and it has been seen as a ‘remote area’ - the dark and barbaric side of Europe. The typical Western – created the concept for Balkans reflect stereotypes such
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Culture both liberates and constrains. It liberates by investing the randomness of nature with meaning‚ order‚ and rationality and by providing safeguards against chaos; it constrains by imposing a structure on nature and by limiting the range of possible meanings created by the individual I quite agree with this oppinion by Claire Kramsch‚ especially after I have read the first 10 pages of his book Language and Culture and gained a basic understanding of his views. Accoridng ot Claire‚ "nature
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“The Influence of mass media on American culture” HUM/186 The major developments in the evolution of mass media in the last century have really developed. listening to the radio in the olden days or having the smartest phone that enables the user to accomplish any
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