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This 3 page paper discusses the inseparability of language and culture, concentrating on American slang. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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culture and culture is language implies that there is a complex homologous relationship between language and culture" (Perkins, Kunen & Fontenot, 2009). Famed anthropologist Frank Boas argued that it wasnt
possible for a person to truly understand another culture unless he or she had "direct access to its language," because the relationship between the two is so intimate (Perkins, Kunen
& Fontenot, 2009). A change in one often results in a change in the other, and together they have shaped human progress (Perkins, Kunen & Fontenot, 2009). One of the
most interesting phenomena in this regard is the development of slang, particularly American slang. Slang is distinguished from "jargon," which refers to the terms used by one particular group of
people, such as IT professionals, electrical engineers, actors, and so on. Actors may talk about beats, cues, flats, scrims, flies, gels, motivation, and so on; they make sense to other
actors but to people outside the industry, it sounds like a foreign language. But its not slang. Slang is found throughout the whole population, and it often seems to come
into use spontaneously and for no really good reason except that its clever and fun (Dalzell, 2005). Walt Whitman described slang as "the start of fancy, imagination and humor, breathing
into its nostrils the breath of life" (Dalzell, 2005). Since Whitman wrote that (1892) American society has been transformed by waves of immigration, "industrialization, urbanization and mass communication" and slang
has changed with it (Dalzell, 2005). Slang pervades all parts of society at all levels, and everyone wants to know the latest terms so they will appear cool and with
it; this attitude of course raises hackles on the backs of purists who resent what they see as the continual bastardization of American English (Dalzell, 2005). But slang is unstoppable,
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