Date Posted: 11/9/2012 2:32:05 PM
Posted By: mwalim Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 181
Language is the primary tool for communication purposes, for establishing peace and order in our society, for showing authority and power, and for attaining goals and objectives. But, it can also destruct the society if it is deployed inappropriately. It must follow the conventionality governing the society to avoid conflict s and to meet the periphery of individual differences.Society gives the guidelines of what is acceptable and not in language, because everyone has his or her own perception of it. What is acceptable by one group of people might be a kind of offence or insult to the other. We must therefore know to what context to apply an element of language.A change in social life lead to changes in language. this can be due to the fact that language is dynamic and productive. Language incorporates social values. However, social values are only the same as linguistic values when the society is a stable and unchanging one. Once society starts changing, then language change produces special effects.
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