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Cynthetiq · 07-07-2004, 06:38 AM

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Originally posted by ARTelevision
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis will get you there.

Thanks, Yzerman.

well then...

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even MORE reason for Bill Cosby to speak out...

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The work field is not the only place where linguistics hold great importance. Sometimes a person's language and dialect dictates the type of people that they associate with. In my "Introduction to Anthropology" class, we watched a video on sociolinguistics. It explained that people with similar culteral backgrounds usually clique- together, and usually speak with similar nuances to their speech. Many times, people who to join these cliques, but dont speak the same lingo, are often outcast by the group, even if they share the same heritage. It is proven that most people learn to adapt their speech to fit into their surroundings. At work, they speak in the way that a business person is expected to speak, but amongst their friends, their speech pattern changes. The speech may be adapted by more or less of an accent being applied, or by the vocabulary that is used, or sometimes both. One reason that linguistics is important to our everyday life is the trust factor. People tend to trust more, the people who are most like themselves. Try to picture a latino, who doesnt speak English too clearly, trying to deliver a sales pitch for a major American corporation, to a group of highly-educated Brits. Not realistic, right? It goes to show that conformity in both linguistics and appearance, is the key factor to attaining professional and social success.