Essay on Language as a Communication, Transformation and Cultural Tool: The Case of English Language

Introduction

Language transformations and developments are the characteristic aspects of a cultural evolution. Language is very integral feature in culture. The English language has grown and transformed effectively to accommodate global outlook, thereby recognizing the regional differences and consolidating them into its growth. The English Language remains an effective tool for the transmission of culture, values, and beliefs as it is recognized as a global language. English in the media is related to the various forms of transmission mainly internet, radio, television, etc (Sharma & Mahavidhalaya, 2015) that affect a person based on his interaction in the form of listening to the defined sources of media. The various sources of print and electronic media pertaining to the the use of English language and their impacts on the learners and speakers have been discussed in this paper.

English in global diverse societies

English has grown to become one of the most adopted language globally, with each global community aspects being formalized and getting consolidation into the mainstream media. Adaptation mechanisms and imaginative reuse of media content in various forms of social contact are embodied in ideas such as ‘appropriation,’ about which an increasing body of evidence exists. Rampton’s (1995) now definitive analysis of language crossover, which involves media bits, also indicates several contextual relations in terms of ‘liminoidal practices’ –that are voluntary and inconclusive practices typical of post-industrialist societies– (Papadimitriou, 2017) to compensate for where such theft might take place: stolen media pieces were sometimes found to appear at successful boundaries in speech. People whether they are native English speakers or others witness change in their linguistic knowledge based on the usage of language on broadcast media. The debates and segments, which involve greater interaction involving speakers exhibit rhetorical influence influencing the reform processes of language (Smith-Stuart, 2017). The speakers of language go through long-term implications based on such reform processes, however, these issues need consideration.

In variationist sociolinguistics, the media’s position in language change has been viewed very differently. Language is regarded in terms of two categories of linguistic features: (1) those that are more available, vulnerable to change, and often above the level of consciousness, especially lexical features; (2) those that are more resistant to change, mostly, but not always below the level of consciousness, such as phonetic/phonological, and other grammatical features. (Smith-Stuart, 2017). The role of television and films without any interaction with the speakers can bring about any change in the structure of language is debatable.

Moreover, in the contemporary period, the internet has revolutionized the whole World.

As Online Informal Learning of English (OILE) work includes researching a variety of Internet-based, communicative recreational experiences from which learners are introduced to media information and communicate in English with others. Researchers have attempted to define the variety of practices involved, measure the degree of access to the target vocabulary, and describe the systems most commonly presented to learners. (Kusyk & Sockett, 2012) Such practices involve streaming original version TV shows online, social interaction in

English music, and listening to the trendy English-language songs.

The theoretical context of Complex Hierarchical Processes sees access to a language and the acquisition of that language as requiring a wide number of overlapping parameters in both the psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics domains (Kusyk & Sockett, 2012). This viewpoint often sees language as build-based, which is consistent with cognitive language learning views.

A variety of initial theories have been established as research on the online informal learning of English progresses from the study of a sociological trend (casual exposure to media) to the evaluation of the subsequent language production. Peter Trudgill has given the impact of television on language in his work, which is followed by theorists and analysts. According to Trudgill, language acts as a centralized executor (Stuart-Smith, 2007). Change is the spread or dissemination of linguistic advancements across geographical locations. It is believed that diffusion takes place via linguistic adaptation, whereby individuals may change their expression in response to those they talk to. As a consequence of socio-psychological mechanisms that occur during direct interaction between speakers, diffusion can thus be called the transmission of linguistic features (Stuart-Smith, 2007).