week 9: language in cultural context

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This week, we discovered that language is directly connected to a lot of things, in fact, it has a lot of facts that could make it change:

-Changes with time and space

-Language, culture and context determine the ways in which meaning is constructed in texts

-Meaning comes from complex interactions between text (or speech, or image), audience, and purpose

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We also saw a video in in wich we had to answer some questions:

1) How many languages does Alex speak?

2) Does context help in the process of acquiring a new language?

3) Are there any languages that have similar pronunciation?

4) Which of the languages spoken by Alex seem more colloquial?

5) Is class a more important factor in language variation than geography?
6) Do you think, the ability of learning a language is innate or learned?
7) According to you, are some languages more or less difficult  to learn than others? Talk about your own experience.

 

ANSWERS: 

1) He speaks eleven (11) languages.
 

2) Yes it does. If everybody surrounding you speaks that language you'll learn ir way faster.
 

3) Maybe italian will be kind of similar but i don't really think so. Greek has a pretty similar pronunciation tough.

4) I dont really know, i just know english and spanish, but i would say spanish.
 

5) Both are. One (geography) will say "this is the language you will speak", and class sais "this is how you are going to use it".
 

6) Humans need to communicate somehow, and they found that talking is the way, but i dont think we born with the hability.
 

7) I dont know if "difficult" is the correct word, but I will say somes need more practice because they are more complex, in the fact that they have more words. In english you just say "the", in spanish you say "el, la, los, las". You use "some, a" for "unos, unas, un, una".