There are different ways through which questions of language and power can be looked at. First, the concepts of language and power can be looked at through analysis of the power play within institutional contexts such as the legal institution (Eades 2006) and the medical institution (Crawford 1999). Language can also be discussed in the context of gender and sexuality. Cameron (2005) points out that when looking at socialization, gender linguistic behavior and gender identities are obtained in the early stages of a person’s life. Additionally, language is discussed and examined on how it is a source of power. Robbins (2001) discusses language ideologies with a special reference to language and religion where he observes that the church …show more content…
The society uses language as a tool to organize itself since every facet of language is potentially political. Joseph (2006) points out that this may include commercial, industrial, familial, grammatical, and aspects and use of language, which makes language to be highly characterized with diversity. Language is naturally immensely social because it always involves different individuals. As such, he indicates that language is an exceptional source for wielding power since linguistic correctness demonstrates the social worthiness, industry, and the intelligence of the speaker. Therefore, determining who takes which position in the social hierarchy. Language is immensely entwined with identity and it hence it goes hand in hand with power (Joseph …show more content…
He shows that the bible contains interesting statements such as, ‘in the beginning there was a word’ as well as Holborrow’s article that points out that, ‘in the beginning there was society’ is a straight and direct reference, and against to the view that society is preceded by language. Religion, language, and power are connected in diverse ways. For example, prayers, sermons, confessions, religious texts, commandments, hymns, chants, and the particular status accorded to ‘God’s word.’ Consequently, Robbins (2001) points out that language ideologies can be comprehended as sets of belief about language, how it works, the meanings it derives, and the relations it has with power. As such, the different ways of thinking about language differ across the different cultural and social groups. Based on that, due to the particular role that is played by language within these different contexts, usually contain very particular forms of language ideologies. Robbins (2001) points out that Protestantism with its formal ritual rejection is prone to be viewed as is fundamentally and almost established and founded through language. The linguistic ideology of the Protestant is closely linked to the wider