September 29, 2010
Word Count: 516
How Might Language Be Related to Emotions?
As we learned from class, language is a dynamic style of communication and interaction amongst other people. Words and meanings are constantly evolving and developing so new words are produced each day and meanings within the word are manipulating. This is important to know because we need to develop new words to express our emotions more clearly and concise to meet the general needs in a changing society that we live in today. It produces sounds to make letters and symbols which most of us understands. By “most of us”, this is talking about the fact that different areas or region have different use of language and meaning. For example, the word key takes upon different meanings in Italy and France. In french, key is “Clé” which is a masculine word. In Spanish, key is “chiave” which is a feminine word. Because of this, if a french person was to talk about a key, they would express themselves being more harsh and demanding. On the other hand, an italian person would express the key as being more delicate and smooth. Knowing that these two different areas and society have different meaning of the word “key”, they would express their emotions differently based on the context of the language. So people in different cultures interpreting a word or idea would have a different mood and emotion, consequently producing a behavior that might not be accepted in certain societies.
