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?
If everyone speaks the same language,
we can all understand each other and work together for a better world. By the
other hand, it wouldn’t be good to speak the same language because we would
lack of ethnical identity and we would all have basically the same pas and
culture.
2. What
does the story suggest about the social functions of language?
Language is
used to communicate with each other. If we can understand our peers, we can
work together for the same objective.
3. What are
some other early stories that deal with the origins or evolution of language?
What do these stories suggest about the power of language?
Mesoamerica:
The Aztecs told the story of CoxCox (a man) and Xochiquetzal (a woman) survived
the horrors of the earth by floating on a bark. Then, after they had their
first children on land, they found out these were unable to speak. Such feature
changed when a dove landed upon their heads, granting each one with a different
language.
Brazil: The
Ticuna people from the Upper Amazon tell the story that everyone was one united in a single tribe, all speaking
the same language, until two hummingbird eggs were eaten (the legend doesn't
say whom). After this event, the tribe split into different groups and
dispersed across the globe.
Africa: The
Bantu people from East Africa tell the story of a severe famine that struck the
first people of the world (who spoke the same language at the beginning). This
drove everyone to madness, causing them to wander in all sorts of directions,
mumbling strange words not know by men before.
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