Language is implicated in most of the phenomena that lie at the core of social psychology. For example, attitude change, social perception, personal identity, social interaction, intergroup bias and stereotyping, attribution, and so on. Thus, both statement are acceptable. Language is the highest form of thought expression, the basic means of controlling behavior, of knowing reality and knowing oneself and the existence of culture. Without the gift of speech man could never acquire cultural values. Those who speak the same language not only can make themselves understood to each other; the capacity of being able to make oneself understood also founds a feeling of belonging and belonging together. This identity-forming power of language is …show more content…
A dialect that can be compared may also be found where language serves not repression and compulsion, but rather founds, illuminates and corroborates comprehensive and cosmological meaning in aesthetically pleasing, well-thought out forms. Man needs the foothold provided by order and social institutions which are established and sustained by linguistic symbolization. But precisely here the rendering into language has always opened the possibility of the variation and change of given interpretations, and to the extent that mythic grounds are themselves interrogated about their grounds. Sooner or later, the language of myth presses beyond itself to logos, which is to word and reason, the language of reason, reasonable and accountable …show more content…
First, the rise of particular specializations within this field has coincided with the emergence of more widely based social and political issues. Thus, the focus on topics such as language and nationalism, language and ethnicity, and language and gender has corresponded with the rise of related issues in society at broader scale. Second, specialists who examine the role of language and society have become more and more interested in applying the results of their studies to the broadly based social, educational, and political problems that probably gave rise to their emergence as sociolinguistic themes to begin with. Sociolinguistics thus offers a unique opportunity to bring together theory, description, and application in the study of language. (Wolfram Walt).For everyone can take possession of the power of language and in this way see through and unmask the power exercised through language. Seen clearly, the “power of language” is thus not the fraternization of language with command and obedience , this uses language for goals other than those which are inherent in it. The genuine, inner power of language is rather to undermine this other kind of