Education of the republic of uzbekistan state university of world languages



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Culture development
Language enabled the transmission of culture. That is now the foundation of our entire worldview and manner of life. Language transmits and mediates everything from social norms to customs, common histories, myths, religions, and art forms. This may appear to be self-evident, but examine what happens to people whose culture and language are taken away from them. In an interview with Babbel, Daniel Bögre Udell, director and co-founder of Wikitongues, he explains why language is a frequent target of oppressors and why maintaining an active connection to one's home tongue and culture may have tremendous impacts on mental health. Languages, on the other hand, are the glue that holds a community together. When you take away a people's language, you take away their way of expressing their cultural history, their commonality. It truly is a destruction of communities. There are few cases of language persecution that aren't linked to other forms of persecution. In the United States, the history of persecuting indigenous languages is inextricably linked to broken treaties, land theft, and genocide. The disappearance of Yiddish in Europe among Ashkenazi Jews is closely linked to the Holocaust, and so on. It's awful to have your culture taken away from you. And it has been shown that when language revitalization is active, mental health is usually better. Individuals perform better in school, there are fewer suicides, and there is less substance usage. And this is because being able to connect with your ancestors is really essential thing for our health.
Languages, in general, are knowledge reservoirs. But it's remarkable how visibly this may be seen in our own world.
It has been demonstrated that biological and linguistic variety coexist and thrive. Geographically, locations with a great level of natural diversity are also areas with a high number of languages coexisting, and these areas tend to be near the equator. This is because certain climates are more friendly to human and animal life in general. Nevertheless, when climate change displaces many of these endangered linguistic communities, the indigenous knowledge of that region's environment, which is encoded in those languages, disappears as well. There is very little nature remaining in the world that has not been influenced or altered by humans. As languages fade, so does traditional knowledge of land management, farming, fishing, and hunting techniques. "Entire disciplines of study are dedicated to eliciting wisdom from linguistic variation," explains Bögre Udell. "Ethnobiology works on finding new species of flora and wildlife to speed conservation efforts by looking at the vocabulary of languages in biodiverse places, and then that breaks down into different fields. There's ethno-ornithology, which studies how to use linguistic diversity to speed up bird conservation. Ethnobotany performs the same thing with plants. Then there's paleolinguistics, which studies how languages change across geographies to uncover clues about human prehistory."
"Every human society has information about its environment, and that knowledge is conveyed through that community's language," Bögre Udell explains. "Language is the great library of human experience and knowledge, and when half of the world's languages are on the verge of extinction, the library is effectively on fire".
Some anthropologists believe that language influences our experience of reality. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is a theory or hypothesis that has been proposed. This hypothesis contradicts Noam Chomsky's belief that humans fundamentally all think and construct language in the same way (universal grammar). While this second view is politically appealing because it implies that we have a lot more in common, there is grounds to suspect that it is inaccurate.
There are two versions of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: weak and strong. In its most basic form, the theory implies that language has an impact on our worldview and thought process. Language, according to the strong form, determines our cognitive process. I'm more of a Sapir-Whorf supporter.
The structure of language appears to influence how we think. Keith Chen investigated the use of diverse structures in representing the sequence of events. At the very least, Chen's research suggests that linguistic structure effects behavior. In his investigation, he looked at the investing behaviors of different language speakers. He discovered that languages that "oblige speakers to grammatically distinguish the future from the present lead to them investing less in the future".
Language can also influence whether or not we assign blame to an individual. Caitlin M. Fausey and Lera Boroditsky investigated how language affects memory. Agentive language is used in English, Spanish, and many other languages. Nonetheless, in inadvertent situations, English speakers appear to use it more than Spanish speakers. One possible explanation is because passive voice is unattractive in English, while it is often used in Spanish (Enforex). Nonetheless, for whatever reason, English speakers were better able to recall the agents involved in accidents than Spanish speakers. While another explanation is feasible, the most logical answer appears to be that using passive voice and avoiding the agent involved in the accident diminishes the ability to remember who was involved in the incident. Other factors include cultural differences in the emphasis of allocating blame. Another fascinating example of how language changes our mind is the Kuuk Thaayorre language. There are no words for left or right in the language. Every direction is stated in accordance with the cardinal directions. As a result, knowing the cardinal directions is critical at all times. Those who speak this language are also fantastic at keeping track of where they are.

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