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PDF Title : | Language Culture And Society |
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Total Page : | 449 Pages |
Author: | James Stanlaw |
PDF Size : | 2.7 MB |
Language : | English |
Publisher : | perseusbooks.com |
PDF Link : | Available |
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The speakers of one language… may tend to ignore differences which are regularly noticed by the speakers of another language. This is not to say that they always ignore them, for these differences can indeed be recognized and talked about in any language, but they are differences that are not always salient in their experiences. The effect of any one language category is to lead language users to assume, perhaps mistakenly, that there is uniformity of some sort within the category.
For example, historians have pointed out that the use of the term “the Middle Ages” may lead to the false impression that the period between the fall of Rome and the Italian Renaissance was in truth a distinct historical period that had uniform characteristics, throughout its length, which set it apart from other periods.
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