Language in Interaction: Its Role in any Society Globally

LANGUAGE IN INTERACTION
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Language in Interaction
The role of language in any society globally is communication. There are thousands of languages world over used by different speakers. English alone is spoken by 1500 million people with its native speakers accounting for less than half of that numberCITATION Sta16 \p "Statista : statista.com" \n \y \t \l 1033 (p. Statista : statista.com). It is critical to understand the language if we are to appreciate its primary role of enhancing communication. Language is particularly essential in building relationships. These relationships can be diverse in their nature from personal to corporate relationships. Language provides a mechanism through which we can articulate our reality, concepts, ideas, feelings, emotions in different scenarios. Language, therefore, gives purpose and meaning to every aspect of our lives. Humans utilize language in different but gender specific ways. Males in human society will utilize language to construct their social status and to determine and preserve their independence from other malesCITATION Yeh96 \p "Harpaz : human-brain.org" \n \y \t \l 1033 (pp. Harpaz : human-brain.org). Females, however, utilize language to build communion, consensus and relationships within a group. It is, therefore, critical that we have an exceptional understanding of language especially noting that humans are communal beings. Language is the tool that facilitates community. An understanding of language, therefore, contributes to a better understanding of ourselves as a speciesCITATION Kor51 \p 311 \l 1033 (Korzybski, 1951, p. 311). In this regard, we refer to language in its robust form consisting of both verbal and non-verbal cues.
The main aim of this paper is to examine the contribution of utterances and non-verbal means of communication to the performance of a practical joint action. The paper utilizes an excerpt from the crystal maze as an appropriate case study. The paper will utilize a number of theoretical principles and analytical methods to analyse the transcription.
A joint action emanates from the joint attention of two or more individuals. The individuals focus on conducting a single action that is of interest to each of the individuals. Joint attention simply refers to the shared focus of multiple persons on an object of joint interest. Joint attention is critical for the development of language as a joint action is dependent on it. Aspects of language development such as comprehension and word learning are dependent on thisCITATION Hir09 \p 611 \l 1033 (Hirotani, et al., 2009, p. 611).
The context of language use looks at how language is used with regard to the setting of a particular conversation. The context looks at whether language is utilized differently in particular scenario based on the environment. The use of context allows us to assign meaning to different words. Context can be linguistic or situationalCITATION ADu97 \p 171 \l 1033 (Duranti, 1997, p. 171). Linguistic context refers to the linguistic variables while situational context refers to the non-linguistic elements that allow us to assign meaning to a word or statementCITATION MOH13 \p ": myenglishpages.com" \y \l 1033 (RHALMI, p. :...