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It has been argued that there is a relationship in language and society and language and the mind with special reference from one of the topic in either social linguistic or PSY linguistic demonstrate that this assertion is authentic

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It has been argued that there is a relationship in language and society and language and the mind with special reference from one of the topic in either social linguistic or PSY linguistic demonstrate that this assertion is authentic

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It has been argued that there is a relationship in language and society and language
and the mind, with special reference from only one topic in either social linguistic or psycho-
linguistic. Demonstrate that this assertion is authentic.
This study will be discussed with the special reference from social linguistic under the topic of
Language and identity. According to Aristotle, language is a speech sound produced by human
beings to express their ideas, emotions, thoughts, desires, and feelings.

Language is the most dominant symbol of the behavior which influences social factors.
Language helps to communicate and deliver our point of views for a specific thing such as
arguing over politics, talking about economic conditions of a country or giving suggestions for
the improvement of the educational system (Linn, 2014). The fact is quite surprising that we
often judge a person, his background, culture and cast by his or her language.

As Thornborrow (2004) explains, one’s identity is not always fixed. Instead it is ‘something
which we are constantly building and negotiating all our lives’’. Since, as mentioned above,
language is one of the most basic ways people can establish their own identity in the society
and shape others’ views of them. Then we can safely assume society and mind are also
interconnected as what we think comes out as a language from the mind. Hence, naturally
people will use language as a tool to do just that, although often this is unconscious. Chambers
(1995) tells us that people unconsciously express their identity through their dress, manners,
possessions and speech. He goes on to explain that speech is much less manipulable and much
harder to control consciously, and is therefore much more revealing of our identity. As such we
can argue that language is not just the way we speak but it goes on to the things that are in our
mind. Including how we dress, behave and so on. People are aware of this, both consciously
and unconsciously, and will therefore adapt the way they speak as far as possible to portray a
certain version of their identity in the sociaty.

The language a speaker uses is decoded by others, which allows them to read the identity of
the speaker. As this decoding depends on the specific language as used by speakers, linguistic
manipulations and adaptations can be employed to purposely alter the decoding of linguistic
signals, and in turn the exact identity a speaker displays. In this way a speaker is able to
highlight certain elements of his identity, mask others, and to some extent even invent certain
characteristics in order to influence others’ decoding of the identity he displays through his use
of language. In conclusion we can safely conclude that there is a relationship in language and
society and language and the mind. Because the mind interact with the society with the way we
do things and the language as well plays a significant role in shaping the society for example in
persuading others to do something in the society and so on.

In conclusion, this study aimed to authenticate the assertion that, “there is a relationship in
language and society and language and the mind”, the study has been conducted with special
reference from social linguistic..
REFERENCES

Chambers, J.K. (1995) Sociolinguistic Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Feito diferencial galego na Antropoloxía, Vol II. (Santiago de Compostela: A Editorial da Historia

Thornborrow, J. (2004) Language and Identity. In Thomas, L. et al. Language Society and
Power. An Introduction. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge,

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