Language, Society and Modernity (A case study of Khowar language District Chitral)

Abstract

Language is considered to be an important tool for communication in society; it is the language by which human beings communicate with each other. Without language we cannot share our thoughts and knowledge and it‟s impossible to interchange different type of product to each other. Language is main part of society, through language each and every person is able to communicate with different type of people. With the passage of time every the pronunciations as well as vocabularies of languages keep changing owing to the modernization and different technological innovation. Consequently the words of dominant languages easily mix in particular languages. In modern era the world has become the global village and the people understand and keep in touch with each other through language. The dominant languages always effect on minor languages which are spoken in under developed communities. Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communication ideas, emotions, and desires by means of willingly produced symbols. However broadly we interpret the term idea emotion and desire. It seems clear that there is much that is communicated through language which is not covered by any of them and idea in particular is inherently imprecise. On the other hand there are many system of voluntarily produced symbols that we only count as language in what we feel to be an extended or symbolic sense of the world language.