Language changes through class culture acquisition and hegemonic national languages

Evidence

The sociologically generated world-picture replicates the accomplishment of societal legislating powers. But it does more than that: it silences the possibility of articulating alternative visions in whose suppression the accomplishment of such powers consists. Thus the defining power of language supplements the differentiating, separating, segregating and suppressing powers lodged in the structure of social domination. It also derives its legitimacy and persuasion from that structure. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 609 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Languages came to be seen as the property of specific national communities — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 345; Late print-capitalism made Swiss multilingualism persist through a bilingual ruling class — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 484; Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals (+6 more)

Related

• Language’s defining power enforces social structures by silencing alternatives (similarity 0.83)
• Languages came to be seen as the property of specific national communities (similarity 0.82)
• Late print-capitalism made Swiss multilingualism persist through a bilingual ruling class (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals #expands (0.80)
• Language’s defining power enforces social structures by silencing alternatives #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 609
• Adopting a new language evidences dislocation and the inferiority complex among the educated. #exemplifies (0.70)