Essay on Language, Communication, and Culture: A Deep Dive

This essay examines the crucial role of language, communication, and culture in human lives. It emphasizes how effective communication transcends mere word knowledge, requiring contextual appropriateness and cultural sensitivity. The essay explores the impact of language on communication, highlighting the challenges and benefits of understanding foreign languages, using examples of linguistic differences, and emphasizing the importance of adapting communication styles to different cultural contexts. It discusses how language barriers can be overcome through awareness, appropriate use of language, and understanding the context. The essay concludes by underscoring the importance of effective communication and language practices for fostering understanding and growth in diverse settings.

ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Language, communication and culture tends to play an important role in the lives of a
human being. Appropriate communicate and the use of better language tends to release the
barriers of understanding and tends to clear situations such as confusion, lack of understanding,
etc. The below essay explains how knowing a foreign language means much more than knowing
words and rules to combine them (Berkenkotter and Huckin, 2016). In what manner, to
communicate successfully, one needs to be able to use language which is not only accurate, but
also appropriate for the context. Along with it, the essay provides clear examples while exploring
the above topic.
MAIN BODY
Language plays an important role in the life of a human being. It tends to help people in
communicate with each other easily and share their opinions and ideas. Usage of good language
and communication between two people tends to provide them with a means to communicate
with each other effectively. Effective communication helps an individual to understand and
comprehend information appropriately and gather required facts and figures.
Understanding and knowing a foreign language is important for the individual of today's
working environment. Today, people are not only bounded to only one place or single state or a
country. They are travelling more often and are making use of new means to explore themselves
and new places (Adler, Rodman and Du Pré, 2016). It is important for the people to know and be
aware of more than one language. Knowledge of one language is more than knowing words and
rules to combine them. It tends to allow the individuals to speak with the people of different
countries and cultures effectively. For example, an individual who is born and bred in the British
culture and nationality when visits another country such as Italy for work purposes requires
making use of other languages as well. In Italy, the individual has to make use of Italian
language.
The main differences which are seen in the English and Italian language includes that in
the Italian language there's a certain degree of correspondence in which how words are written
and are pronounced (Katan, 2016). But in English it's not there. The Italian language carriers two
non-obvious grammatical genders for all nouns, whereas English is having total three
grammatical genders.
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The other differences in the language includes that adjectives in Italian are conjugate for
grammatical number and gender whereas in English they are not. Also, pronouns are often
omitted in Italian when specifying the subject because of the verb conjugation whereas in
English it is not possible to do that.
These differences are going to make the individual suffer in speaking the language
effectively (Baker, Johnson and Roberts, 2018). In order to ensure this, it is important for the
individual to learn the Italian language and the differences between the native and Italian
language as well. It can help the individual to appropriately learn the language and ensure that
set growth is being achieved.
This explains how important it is for an individual to learn and be aware of other
languages as well. Also, learning of new languages tends to provide a boost to the creativity and
helps in personal development. It has been seen that in order to communicate successfully, it is
important for an individual to make use of language that is not only accurate, but also
appropriate for the context. This means that while communicating with another individual, it is
important to use a language that is appropriate and ensures the understanding and comprehension
of another individual as well (Wang, 2018). Language often clears the barrier of
misunderstanding between two people. People since the history are making use of languages in
order to convey the ideas to each other and ensure appropriate understanding of each others
ideas, opinions, views, information etc.
For understand the foreign language here is important have the ability, skills like problem
solving, dealing with the effective and best concept with the abstract. The study of foreign
tongue improves the knowledge of one own language. By this peoples are convey their massages
to others. It is important to convey right massages to others because by this peoples are
understand the information which is give by other. This impact to the daily lives of members any
race like feeling, desires and queries to the world around. The ability to communicate in multiple
languages is becoming more important in the increasing globally business community. With the
help of this peoples gain high level of growth at various conditions. Language is the key aspect
to setting up the success in their future effective and professional growth across. The unique and
divers methods of human beings for use to communicate through the written and oral in foreign
language.
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Various foreign language is help to give brain a boost, like speaking other language is
help to boost brain of the peoples. This established connection and cross cultural by different
culture. In that taking effective care of peoples understanding to convey massages to others in
effective manner. It is more interesting and meet more interesting peoples at the time of knowing
and learning foreign language (Kim, 2017). Foreign language takes the various expression at the
time talking and conveying their massages to other. This is the great and best ways to learn
something new and attract peoples towards to know about that. The impact of multi nationalism
traced to even in more field and also in effective way. The communication skills are important
and have to be effective. This have to be understand by others for making effective growth in
every sector. It is important to communicate in effective ways to other and take care of their
understanding.
While communicating with others for an individual, it is not only important to make use
of language which is accurate, but also it is important to use a language which is right for the
context. In order to do this, the individual while speaking the language needs to make use of
right gestures and the way the language needs to be spoken to while speaking. Being appropriate
for the context means that when language is used as a means to communication between two
parties, both of them have to contain a similarity in order to exchange ideas and set point of
views.
In order to make use of the language effectively, it is important for the individual to
understand the context really well. It is because the context can help the individual to understand
in what manner the language needs to be used. For example, while conversing with the people
during the work presentation, or presenting them with the new ideas and opinions. It is important
for the individual which is going to present or showcase the presentation to comprehend and
evaluate in what context the language needs to be used. The context offers a wide understanding
of the people to which the ideas are going to be communicated. Along with it, it showcases the
actual evaluation of the understanding of the people within a set group and help them reach new
growth and development. It tends to better the communication and ensure that appropriate
growth is being achieved while presenting the ideas and opinions.
When an individual from the British nationality moves to the Italy, it takes him time to
gain an understanding and become a part of the Italian people. Communication also changes the
culture of one place to another, it is because the culture is more often based on the behaviour and
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lifestyles of the people. As per their behaviours and lifestyles, the people tend to communicate
with each other and share their ideas and opinions. It impacts the language that is being spoken
by the people and the ideas which they are exchanging with each other. It explains that language
tends to play a crucial role in the lives of people and from the help of this in what manner people
exchange their ideas, opinions and point of views.
Communication is one of the biggest requirement for a person to explain or seek anything
in the society. It can help people to earn money, a living or most importantly earn a better place
in the society. The practices of communication help the people in ensuring that better growth and
development is being achieved within the society. Communication allows the people to ask
questions, provide answers and solve each others problems. Also, it helps them to reach new
growth and most effectively develop a better understanding towards the ideas and opinions
shared. While communicating language tends to play an important role, it is because language is
the medium from which communication takes place. The differences between the languages
tends to make the people of the society and community suffer while speaking to a person that
belongs to a different community or a different nationality. It is important to ensure that while
speaking or sharing the ideas with the people of different communities, appropriate usage of
language is being done.
Usage of better language tends to ensure that appropriate sharing is being done between
the speaker and the listener. In case, when a speaker belongs from a different culture or speaks a
different language, it tends to provide trouble to the listener in understanding what is being
conveyed to him. In that case, it is important for both the speaker or the listener to be aware of
the language which is being shared as a medium. This can help them to understand each other
effectively and ensure that the information or knowledge which is being conveyed to them is
being understood clearly.
Speaking of context, it is important for an individual to be aware of the situations and the
surroundings in which the language is going to be conveyed, or communication will take place.
It is because without being aware of the situation or the surrounding the individual can face
situations where the communication tends to become ineffective (McKenna, Zarestky and
Anzlovar, 2018). Also, the listener or the speaker is not able to understand or comprehend the
information that is being shared. It is important to evaluate the context or understand in what
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manner the information needs to be conveyed to the people in order to ensure that appropriate
communication is taking place between both of the parties.
The other important aspect here is to make use of language in such manner that it does
not create any confusion or misunderstanding between both the listener and the speaker. It can be
done by using various means such as understanding of the speaker's thought process or
understanding the mentality of the listener (Kim, 2017). It creates situation for both of the parties
to clearly understand and comprehend the information which is being shared. It helps the parties
to clearly gain or share knowledge and make effective usage of language while communicating
with each other. This helps to reach better growth and communication and ensure that
information is being share appropriately.
It is important for the listener and the speaker to evaluate the differences which they are
facing while communicating with other people. Understanding the differences would allow them
to maintain a basic understanding between each other and ensure that the information is being
shared and conveyed effectively (McDonough, 2017). It has been seen that today, a lot of people
tends to carry a good speaking or communication skills but they do not know, in what manner
they should use them to effectively in order to eliminate communication gaps and use it as per
the set contexts. Understanding this would eliminate a lot of problems and would ensure
effective communication practices.
CONCLUSION
It is one of the most important requirement for an individual to have effective
communication and language practices in place. This can help the individuals to ensure that
appropriate understanding of the ideas and opinions is being done properly. From the above
evaluations, it can be seen that it is important for an individual to be aware of more than
languages. It helps the individual in situations when there is a speaker or a listener which is
sharing the ideas in language that is not native, to understand and comprehend the information.
Also, it tends to increase the creativity skills and knowledge of the person or individual.
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McDonough, S., 2017. Applied linguistics in language education. Routledge.
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