What is the effect of language on a society?

by Talilah C | May 2, 2021 | What is the effect of language on a society?

“Languages are semiotic systems, that is, systems that create meaning (through concepts for instance). These work as patterns of relevance and thus point out what “matters” to the speakers (ex: there exist several spectrums of colours described by different languages). Words and metaphors bear meaning and direct the attention of speakers to precise phenomena. Thus, a language may to a certain extent reflect a society’s practice of the world, as a certain variation of a language may impact and redirect the society’s attentive Energy to other phenomena (ex: gender neutral pronouns). Still, there are no “pure” language in the sense that languages are based on a multiplicity of variations that differ according factors such as geography, identities, social-class, and so on.”