ACTIVITY PAGE 35

THE POWER OF LANGUAGE

1. What does the image, and the story, suggest about the benefits of everyone speaking the same language? What are the drawbacks?

It`s benefits is that people could understand among themselves better, there would be more cooperation and not much cultural problems. The drawbacks of these are first that there would be a lack of identity and minor ethnical groups would have more problems. Another drawback is that to unify language, cultures and a huge variety of languages should be destroyed and there would be disputes to choose the "dominant" language.

2. What does the story suggest about the social functions of language?

The story suggest that language gives basically identity, it unites a group of people and is essentially what maked one group of people different of another one.