AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
To communicate
|
|
|
To articulate their circumstances
|
|
|
For existence
|
|
|
For identifying themselves
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Baldwin says, “people evolve a language … in order not to be submerged by a reality that they cannot articulate. (And, if they cannot articulate it, they are submerged.)” If we do not have the tools required to articulate our circumstances, we are submerged by the forces of our societies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Language allows us to share our thoughts, ideas, emotions, and intention with others. Over thousands of years, humans have developed a wide variety of systems to assign specific meaning to sounds, forming words and systems of grammar to create languages.
Detailed explanation-3: -Languages change when speakers come into contact with new populations (think colonialism and trade), and they change when social groups adopt their own distinctive norms.
Detailed explanation-4: -Language also varies across time. Generation by generation, pronunciations evolve, new words are borrowed or invented, the meaning of old words drifts, and morphology develops or decays.