Language and Cultural Values

[grandmasterkim]

I was thinking about language and how it affects a person. I'm certain that the grammatical, lexical, and semantic properties of a language influence how those that use it view and process the world around them. After all - they have to. Language is a part of your daily life

Comments

[stryder619]

Well, the NEWS never said it was there to educate, just to inform.

more general

[grandmasterkim]

What about, "that's news to me"? It should inform me of something I don't know already, otherwise it's technically not news (to me).

Informing me of important events, turning points, movements, etc. is not necessarily teaching in the traditional sense, but it is still allowing me to learn something new about the world around me. Therefore it is still something I'd like to see on the news. I'm just saying that telling me about everyday occurences that the public is aware of is about as useless as it gets.

[ronin001]

...absolutely facinating stuff about the classifiers. Back in the day when I was trying to study japanese, classifiers were stressed with high importance. My teacher, Dr. Kim, loved to illustrate that classifiers were what made Japanese so simple when compared to English, to which I completely agree with him. He always spoke about how sentence structure in Japanese is much simpler, as were verb tenses, with contextual reference used to drive the language, while classifiers were an important part to understand that context

[goatunit]

I agree about language. And there is a lot out there to read on this very subject. I'm currently reading a book called "Language Myths" by a collection of prominent linguists. You might also be interested in some of Noam Chomsky's work as a linguist, before he became associated with anarchism and politics.

[grandmasterkim]

Thanks!

[notafraidtobe]

yo, it's me...alex... :) in my newish SUPERSECRET account. yeah. :P

[grandmasterkim]

I added you. ;)