Culture influences language and they are connected to one another. Language is a reflection of culture. Culture is the main idea and language is that detail that conveys the main idea. In short, language and culture connects to one another and can not be separated. The one that I find the most compelling from the theories of language and culture that we have encountered,is that in order for you to fully understand the language first you have to understand the culture, because culture creates language. Two texts that I am going to use to argue how language and culture are connected to one another are ‘Metaphors we live by’ by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. And “Spectacle” by Newkirk.
“Metaphors we live by” by Mark Johnson talks about metaphors …show more content…
He was locked in a monkey cage in the Bronx zoo. He was a small black man who who was captured from Congo and was brought to the Unites States in 1904 by Samuel Verner an explorer. He looked nothing like the people around him due to his height and dark black features and therefore was considered an inferior race and were treated less as a human and more as an animal. Everyone was curious about him. People from everywhere came to see the “inferior race” studied him and laughed at his activities. He was scared of everything that was going on with him and that became entertainment for people:
Benga became the object of painting finger, audible gasps and bellowing laughter...He did not initially comprehend their language but could feel both the sting of their scorn and the pang of their pity. In their wide eyes he could see his humanity, like one’s image in a funhouse mirror, monstrously distorted. He was concerned, and exposed to crackling hyenas under a glaring spotlight.(pg.12) later on he was taken to an asylum where he learned english and worked at a tobacco factory. He became depressed because of the mental condition he went through and also that he had no way to return to his homeland Congo and then he shot himself in the
“Metaphors we live by” by Mark Johnson talks about metaphors …show more content…
He was locked in a monkey cage in the Bronx zoo. He was a small black man who who was captured from Congo and was brought to the Unites States in 1904 by Samuel Verner an explorer. He looked nothing like the people around him due to his height and dark black features and therefore was considered an inferior race and were treated less as a human and more as an animal. Everyone was curious about him. People from everywhere came to see the “inferior race” studied him and laughed at his activities. He was scared of everything that was going on with him and that became entertainment for people:
Benga became the object of painting finger, audible gasps and bellowing laughter...He did not initially comprehend their language but could feel both the sting of their scorn and the pang of their pity. In their wide eyes he could see his humanity, like one’s image in a funhouse mirror, monstrously distorted. He was concerned, and exposed to crackling hyenas under a glaring spotlight.(pg.12) later on he was taken to an asylum where he learned english and worked at a tobacco factory. He became depressed because of the mental condition he went through and also that he had no way to return to his homeland Congo and then he shot himself in the