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The English Language Reflection
At first I want to say that the text was very interesting for me, because I consider
that when we learn a new language we need not only the structure, meaning or
semantics, we must understand how the language is built, the way in which the
society influence on it. For that the text gives us a brief context about how the
language has evolved or has received words from other languages.
I want to develop some of the ideas which caught my attention, or which I consider
very important. The first one is about the main influences of the English language, if
we try to summarise or define the concept English we can say that English is a group
of Germanic tribes and we can say that this tribes conquest the island violently. But
another point apart of the violence with those tribes arrive to the island was political, I
understood from the text that the Roman Empire and Latin left a strong legacy in
language, but the important levels of organization and the way that the Empire
conquest and administrate their lands was a very important fact. So we can understand
that there are many different factors but the most important or more determinant are
political, in the sense of the structure and organization of the society.
In other hand the text explains that learning languages implies more than
understanding words:
“Learning the words of the English language, you still don’t know the
English language is generated by grammar, also the structure of the sounds
by phonetics and phonology, words by morphology, sentences by sintax, and
the rules to understand the meaning by semantics, and at least the
appropriate use by pragmatics”.
To finish and the other important thing that I found in the text is that the language
changes as the society do, it implies internal changes which refers to changes that
occurs by instance, by speakers or in other words linguistic terms , and the external
changes are determined by social or the influence of other cultures, which can be by
conquest, invasions, political regimens or migrations etc...
Lexical Analysis
Alexander Vera Salazar
