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01-02-2007, 05:45 AM
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Normally; most people with average mental capacity hold language as nothing more than just a communication medium, which is true, only when it comes to the use of a language. But such perception is absolutely false when it comes to grasp the exact developmental and evolutionary course of the language. The notion, that language is nothing more than just a medium of communication, completely falls over when one closely examines the whole evolutionary process involved in the development of a language.
The level of evolution of a language directly reflects the level of cognitive development of the people who developed that particular language.
Here is some more light on the state of affairs between the cognitive endowments of the societies and the development of their languages:
Society, Culture, Nation and such other words, encapsulate the concept of Civilisation, which consequently entails people or public as a whole.
Public broadly divides into two groups: -
Intellectuals and General Public or masses
The
Intellectual Group
further divides into two governing categories: -
Honest and Corrupt
Similarly, the
General Public
also divides into two predominant categories: -
Aware and Impetuous
Though, it is normal to expect
Intellectuals
and
General Public
somewhere in the middle of the pertinent categories, the following analytical discussion is based on the undiluted, predominant categories listed above.
For a civilisation to come into being and develop, interaction between the intellectuals and general public, no matter how significant or insignificant it may be, is inevitable and this is a fundamental ground upon which the formation of any society can be based. Based on the above four categories of human conducts, the following four sets of social interaction process that can take place among the people can be identified.
Intellectuals -- General Public
1) Honest -- Aware
2) Honest -- Impetuous
3) Corrupt -- Aware
4) Corrupt -- Impetuous
The quality of such interaction may change over time. Nonetheless, it is essentially a very slow process and it takes several generations for a society to identify requisite changes for improvements and advancement in the state of affairs of language development, which is essentially achieved by the quality of the operative feedback loops.
The process begins with some sort of communication between the people. In order to establish any communication, the invention and use of languages was only natural and logical course. For a language to be comprehensible and intelligible to all people involved, the development and grasp of various concepts that could provide means for common mental representations of people, places, objects, events, situations, activities; and other concrete and abstracts terms are absolutely essential. Thus, concepts form the basic building blocks of human thoughts and then become the foundation of mental categories, which people use for classification, in evaluating information, in making decisions and then act accordingly. This way, concepts get firmly planted in language and in turn the entire process forms a strong psychological bond between concept formation and evolution of the language.
Thus:
- The power of language reflects people’s ability to form clear and strong concepts, which in turn depends on the quality of interaction process that is operative among the group of people at a given period of time-frame.
- The level of evolution of language directly reflects the quality of cognitive endowments of the society that speaks that language.
- Language forms the fundamental base of human cognitive process, which develops and evolves over generations and centuries depending on the existing communicable thoughts and knowledge.
- The level of evolution of language directly reflects the level of progress and advancement of the society.
- The level of evolution of language directly reflects the quality of interaction among the various members of the society in question.
The following are the representative examples of the developmental courses of four societies based upon the evolution of their languages
1) Honest -- Aware
Concepts: - Clear
Language: - Evolved
Cognitive Process: - Actualising
Society: - Developed
Feedback: - Generative
2) Honest -- Impetuous
Concepts: - Cogent
Language: - Developed
Cognitive Process: - Effective
Society: - Latent
Feedback: - Restorative
3) Corrupt -- Aware
Concepts: - Vague
Language: - Deceptive
Cognitive Process: - Pretentious
Society: - Crippled
Feedback: - Restorative
4) Corrupt -- Impetuous
Concepts: - Weak
Language: - Slender
Cognitive Process: - Obscured
Society: - Backward
Feedback: - Degenerative
It should not put too much of a strain on the peoples' minds wanting to conclude where both of these languages; in fact, any of the 26 or so Indian languages stand, not in terms of the number of their speakers, but in terms of their abilities to serve the demands and sophistication required in the communication needs of today and future.
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