LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY
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Language plays a key role in forming and expressing identity. Identity is influenced by both conscious and unconscious processes and is shaped by how individuals see themselves and how society defines them. Language serves both communication and identity functions, with neither being fixed. Through language, groups distinguish members from non-members and develop variations that mark their identity. A person's identity formation occurs through discourse, with language choices being paramount to how they construct self and are identified by others.
LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY
- 1. PPT BY :ROSHNA CLASS NO : 22 SUBMITTED TO: MAM FARKHANDA SUBJECT: LANG., CULTURE AND IDENTITY DATE: 8/8/2020
- 2. LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY When you speak this is your identity
- 3. WHAT IS IDENTITY? Identity is the individual’s concept of the self, as well as the individual’s interpretation of the social definition of the self, within his/her inner group and the larger society According to Devos (1992): IDENTITY formation is not a conscious process but is influenced by unconscious psychological processes.
- 4. What is language? Language is a system of communication comprising codes and symbols which is used by human to store, retrieve, organize, structure and communicate knowledge and experience. Language is not a static process. It is primary instrument in culture. Language is used to maintain to maintain one’s own culture and identity.
- 5. Relationship between language and identity: Language has two basic functions: a)Communication b) Identity Neither identity nor language use is a fixed notion; both are dynamic, depending upon time and place(Norton,1995)
- 6. Conti… The main requirement of a group is to find out a way to distinguish members from non- members. Group members learn a language within the group and only those who belong to the group can use it to a high degree of competence.
- 7. Languages can be divided into human and non-human languages. Human languages are those used by humans for communication. All human languages are both natural and artificial.
- 8. Human beings created writing, and then states, and the state establishes state languages which differ from other spontaneous languages by being standardized
- 9. Each person belongs simultaneously to many groups and each group tends to develop variations of language which demarcate it from other groups.
- 10. Each language also tends towards more extensive use than within its own group and each tends towards some use by neighboring groups to facilitate communication and identity.
- 11. States that are formed through the unification of several ethnic groups or nations need a neutral new language to express their overall identity, such as Bahasa Indonesia.
- 12. Identity formation via discourse For the majority of Hispanics, the Spanish language runs deeply into cultural and personal identities The work of the sociologist Goffman has been influential in showing that self is constructed entirely through discourse, making our language choices of paramount importance to our identity construction. In fact he defines that personal identity is how others identify us, not how we identify ourselves.
- 14. Conclusion Language and identity is dynamic not static. A person identity is formed through discourse. In this way identity is interlinked with language.