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Examine the importance of language as a cultural indicator
poland
srp 1 : poland orgins as a state goes back to 996 AD
srp 2: polish is a salvic lanugage which orginated from proto salivc an ancient lanugage spoken by early proto salvic tribes
srp 3: Despite these ocupations and the carving up of this country during these tiems the polish lanugage and there strong catholic roots have not been effected despite the many attempts from opressors to subdue them for example germany during ww2 invasion followed by the soviets
SRP 4: the polish republic forrmed in 1952 to 1990 and was controlled by her overload of the ussr as a communist state.During this time relgion and the polish lanugage were outlawed and were not allowed in schools,courts and governments
SRP 5: despite all the hardships during worl war times the polish held onto there lanugage and relgion and it became a symbole of cultrual resitance to foreign rule
SRP 6: poems song and folklore were kept alive by the people all over poland as an act defiance and a sense of national identity and pride eg monte cassio sang by polish soliders during the war
SRP 7: in 1989-91 after the fall of the soviets bloc the republican of poland was born
SRP 8: in 2004 poland joined the european union and poland is now seen as a offical lanugage in the european union
SRP 9: polish language is spoken by about 45 million people spoken across europe,and north and south america with majority of it being spoken in poland
ASPECT :
In my first aspect I will examine the importance of language as a cultural indicator to the polish people.I will firstly briefly look at the origins of the polish and the polish state before addressing how the language survived many foreign conquests and became a symbol of defiance for the polish people.Finally i will look at the state of the polish language today
france as a unifying force
SRP 1: in 1789 at the time of the reveltion only 3 million of the 25 million spoke parisian french.Outside the parish there were many languages and dialects throught the country
SRP 2: the revletionarys made french the symbol of national unity and laws passed and frech passed that it would be the only lanugage tolerated in public life and schools in france
SRP 3: this expanded parisian french outwaards from the paris basin into all the french provinces and as a result of today is the first lanugage of 88% of the population with the other 12% being spanish,arabic,english and german
SRP 4: the purity of the lanuguge is procted by the academie francese where its 40 members decided the new words to add to the language
SRP 5: laws have also been passed to protect the language toublon law in 1994 makes the french lanugage mandatory in your everyday life
SRP 6: the french government is also discouraging the borrowing of english words from the english lanugage.The mix of french and english is known as frangleis is becoming stronger with the influence of america media and the interent eg tik tok and tv
SRP 7: it is also affected by modern trends french students all lean towards english as a second lanugage
SRP 8: younger french generations have been affected by american slang especially in african districts in french cities were rap and hip hop music eg j cole and fashion is heavly influenced from the bronx
SRP 9: regional lanugages have declined over the past 200 years but dialects of breton,basque,flemish are still in use
ASPECT:
In my second aspect I will be discussing the importance of the French language as a cultural indicator when i look at French.I will show how from the birth of the republic French was used as a unifying force and how even today the government work hard to protect the language integrity from outside threats or influences
beligum source divison
SRP 1 : there are three major regions of diffrent languages that exist in belgium,french,dutch and german
SRP 2: the north of belgium is known as flanders is dutch and flemish speaking and the south of begium is known as wallonia is french speaking
SRP 3: there is a small region to the east that is german speaking called eupen malmedy region
SRP 4: beligum is a country where there is major divison between the north dutch speaking region of flanders and south french speaking region of wallonia
SRP 5: the cultrual divide becae all to obivus in 1917 and belgium was split into three known as the lanugage line
SRP 6: during this era french speaking wallonia was an area of prosperity and industrial deveopment with flanders only getting flanders only getting first flemish speaking country in 1930
SRP 7: as the 20th century progresed the impact of industrialization faded leaving wallonia to lag behind the modernising world.Flanders began to prosper during this
SRP 8; today is brussels all legal documents must be published in both dutch and french
SRP 9: The divide is such that both cultrual groups attend diffrents school,socialise in there groups and marry there own area.Suburbanisation continues to add fuel to the fire as french speaking parts of brussels are being swallowed up by the flemish speaking suburbs
SRP 10: for a wallon to buy a property in flanders they must past a language exam,first the lanugage divide is to obvious during the brussels terriorist attack in 2016 whereby two seperate polic foreces in the citie had not been sharing information about suspects or threats
SRP 11: in 2017 the local governmentof wallonia initally blocked a trade deal between the EU and Canada in attempt to show status as they felt they were not heard at national levels
ASPECT : In my final aspect i will look at the importance of language as a cultural indicator when i see it under pins huge social divide within the Belgium.I will first examine the history of this multilingual state.Secondly i will look at how language underpins social divide in Belgium .Finally see the impact of this divide in Belgium