Language, Identity, the Implications and Effects they have on College Literacy
The world’s population grows exponentially, and now that there are about 7.2 billion people on the earth today, 9.6 billion is the expected population by 2050. As there are wide varieties of people, so are the languages they speak. In this paper, I will be aiming to provide some insight through general statements and information that indicate the politics behind sociolinguistics and college literacy. Language is the neural audio technology that can take a thought or idea and transmit it directly from your brain to another brain, absent of any cables or cords. We in turn are effectively using an advance form of telemetry similar to something like Wi-Fi, which allows …show more content…
Two out of three children are raised in households that speak more than one language. More people are speaking more than one language, and within each language are different variations. And as social and political affairs progress, so will each language and variation grow and mold into different, new languages as they come together. Despite the wide variety of languages and dialects and their astounding differences, there are still clearly many distinct properties that amalgamate all language together through the human ability to communicate.
Despite the congruencies between language and identity, they cannot and should not be categorized as the same. We find that the world is not defined by our perceptions or identities, but that our identities and perceptions are interpretations of an ever-changing environment. It seems to become clearer that language and our use of language can be equal to a majority of the reason we are who we are, as communication is required for a majority of our interactions with others, in order to comprehend information that is being passed on by …show more content…
This idea gives preference to the dialects and slangs within a given society, embracing those language aspects, and only using other language in instances of communication outside the given society. Given these ideologies, we can now further ourselves to attain a much more competent view of the relationship between language and identity than that of those theories used to
The world’s population grows exponentially, and now that there are about 7.2 billion people on the earth today, 9.6 billion is the expected population by 2050. As there are wide varieties of people, so are the languages they speak. In this paper, I will be aiming to provide some insight through general statements and information that indicate the politics behind sociolinguistics and college literacy. Language is the neural audio technology that can take a thought or idea and transmit it directly from your brain to another brain, absent of any cables or cords. We in turn are effectively using an advance form of telemetry similar to something like Wi-Fi, which allows …show more content…
Two out of three children are raised in households that speak more than one language. More people are speaking more than one language, and within each language are different variations. And as social and political affairs progress, so will each language and variation grow and mold into different, new languages as they come together. Despite the wide variety of languages and dialects and their astounding differences, there are still clearly many distinct properties that amalgamate all language together through the human ability to communicate.
Despite the congruencies between language and identity, they cannot and should not be categorized as the same. We find that the world is not defined by our perceptions or identities, but that our identities and perceptions are interpretations of an ever-changing environment. It seems to become clearer that language and our use of language can be equal to a majority of the reason we are who we are, as communication is required for a majority of our interactions with others, in order to comprehend information that is being passed on by …show more content…
This idea gives preference to the dialects and slangs within a given society, embracing those language aspects, and only using other language in instances of communication outside the given society. Given these ideologies, we can now further ourselves to attain a much more competent view of the relationship between language and identity than that of those theories used to