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Language in cultural context - Coggle Diagram

- - - - place where people speak English
    - - language which one might use to communicate with someone who doesn't share a native language with them.
    - - people with similar interests reach out and find each other across the world and this way creating networks worldwide
    - - act of people coming together, moving toward union or uniformity
    - - the importance of a language
    - - to learn a language because of a practical reason such as getting a job or getting a better education
    - - driven by the want to get to know the people who speak that language
    - - importing words from one language to another
    - - words which origin from another language
  - - - English is nowadays also spreat through influential media(e.g. BBC)
      - language borrowing and loanwords
      - Even though many languages have taken English words and used them in their own vocabularies, English has done the very same
        
        English has multiple loanwords such as kindergarten, algebra and karaoke
      - Another language may describe certain meanings and ideas better , which is why language borrowing happens
      - English is thought to be more fashionable, which is why it may replace some words that already existed in the other language and have the same meaning
      - Even when British Empire's reign started to decline, its effects on the intercultural communication all around the world stayed.
        
        Some former colonies e.g. South Africa still speak English as one of the primary languages
    - - helped different people in different parts of one country to communicate together, as without English they'd have no common language or lingua franca
      - Learning English creates multiple new job opportunities
        
        People who are motivated to learn a new language because of this use the instrumental motivation
      - Bilingualism
      - Often different cultures shape or adjust English so that it works in their favor or to use English for different purposes or in different context
        
        this is seen e.g. in marketing
    - - leading power when it comes to seafaring
      - Knowing English helped to prevent accidents in the international waters, as multiple nations used seas and oceans in transportation and to ship goods etc.
- - - - words and phrases used by particular groups of people, esp. in their work, that are not generally understood
    - - a person's specific, unique way of speaking
      - "linguistic footprint"
      - is influenced by where we come from , who we communicate with and who we want to become
    - - two cultures dividing or separating, and communicating very little or not at all
    - - formality or informality of a language
    - - sayings or features that are more used in informal than formal situations(casual communication)
      - a word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation
    - - when newer generations get pidgin passed on to them and they develop it into a language that can be used in any possible situation, and not only for trade for example
    - - person switching dialects in order to become more understood by someone. Code switching depends on who the person is talking to and the situation the person is in and also what they are trying to achieve with the conversation
  - - - Historically people living in the southern USA have British ancestry who have emigrated from the British Isles and that is why they have an accent
        
        Silent r comes from British isles
    - - People needed a language that expressed their independence and their regional identity but also a language that connected them to the English Empire
        
        accents and dialects were born
      - Pidgins or improvised languages were invented to make trade and such economical communication easier and faster, as not all countries spoke perfect english or didn’t have the resources to learn proper english
      - The more a person identifies with their local region when it comes to english and the dialect, the
        
        A person can through language show to what extent they identify with their local region
        
        Use of vernacular language makes the language less accessible for the global region