Language and Power

wording is the medium of boldness of hu homosexual beings. Animals may have their experience charter of manner of speaking, but we merely know ab divulge any, that too authorized. Even in our dreams we need the sponsor of wrangle to muse or soliloquize or interact with others. Language, of course, varies with spots and contexts. It goes without locution that language has tremendous power to fit and necessarily mould itself concord to the requirements of the give bureau. At the dawn of civilization when man had yet to collect a language to communicate among themselves, the exchange of ideas and feelings hardly remained withdrawn.The sign language born out of gestures came to fill in the hiatus for a given period of time. Yet, the communication without language was lacking in that particular power. thereafter with the invention of language, man felt comfortable to express his ideas, feelings, sentiments, emotions more effectively. along with the advancement of language, man now knows the varied forms of its use in variant contexts. Mostly, this exercise is non deliberate, but spontaneous.Language sometimes becomes extraneous in some relationships. It is learnt from authoritative sources that whenever Beckett utilize to meet Joyce at his residence the couplet hardly talked to all(prenominal) other, rather felt the need of feeling each other silently. It is also known that sometimes Joyce spoke up pause the ice, How could the idealist Hume write a history? Becketts reply used to come pat and dry, A history of representation. Such dry converse can hardly certify any relationship with deep roots. exclusively in such cases silence has a tongue of its own.Language, no doubt, changes along with the context. Why not take a specific case of a man who has to play some(prenominal) roles at the same time? While, as a caring husband he coos sweet nothings into the ears of his once-upon-a time-lover wife, his language is impelled by true heartfelt emot ion, and naturally tends to be poetic. When the same man takes his subordinate in the office to task, he has the most harsh language that he hardly desists to utter and again when he is a lovely dad at home, the sweetness of his language can win any heart, can pacify the umbrage of any irate tiny append See him again as a responsible son of an incapacitated, wizened father and his soothing, caressing delivery will assuage any pain his once-doting father might have nursedThis is to show how a somebody automatically responds to a certain situation with his dynamic, protean language. Language is like a river, it has ripples, it can change its course as and when required, topping all, it has tremendous power to influence, to move, to mesmerize. Are we not re head worded of Miltons Paradise Lost admit One, where infuriated, adamant Satan utters five powerful speeches to rouse the fallen angels in the Lake of Fire, in this context? How is the language of Satan here? Rabble-rousing, inspiring, fiery demagogueryIf Satan spoke in ordinary language asking them officially to get to their feet to wage warfare against God, would they be so surcharged with the fiery fervor? As Satan thunders, What though the field be lost?? any is not lost-the unconquerable will,/And study of r change surfacege, immortal hate,/And courage never to show or yield/And what else not to be overcome? When a semipolitical leader delivers a harangue, effective in rabble-rousing, it goes without saying that the speech is fiery, that is to say, imbued with an undetected force, that works wonder on the public, by and large.The effect ,otherwise, would have been drab, get off-of the-mill Language has its own power to fit into any given situation successfully. If it had not been so, the volatility of language would stand questioned. That is why, it is rightly said that the situation moulds and demands the language. urinate the case of the Professor in J.M.Coetzees Disgrace. After having emotional and physiological relation with the girl, good enough to be his own daughter, he feels remorseful, his words fail him.He is so repentant that he pays a clack to the girls family. He is such guilty in his own eyes that he does not defend himself when an Enquiry Commission is run in order to give him a chance to defend himself and pardon himself subsequently. He has no power or zeal to speak out in his own defense.Language has tremendous power to change the mind of a convict as we have seen in The Bishops Candlesticks. Bishop with his enthusing, assuaging, buttery speech can dissuade the convict from pilfering the gold candlesticks. The words of the Christian Father are replete with affection, warmth. Such is the force of language that even an incorrigible convict can be brought to the path of virtues from that of vices and knavery.A specify has the power of boosting up the mental strength of an ailing patient by his soothing, encouraging and positive words, a reassurin g pat on the keep going and in most cases supported by correct treatment ,this contributes a lot in coming round of the patient.Kiran Bedi, the Indian I.P.S Officer has already proved that if the prisoners in a jail are given humane, condole with treatment they can easily and obviously change into better leaves. She experimented with the recidivists in Tihar jail, New Delhi, India, and reported of favorable results in almost cent percentage cases. In lieu of harsh language they were treated with soft, friendly words. And, it brought arse their lost self-respect and they began to teem with a new-found energy and confidence in themselves and their stigmatized lives.A successful lawyer with the force of language along with proper witness and evidence can take his client win the case. A teacher can hold the attention of the students solar day after day with his power of words, and of course, the content catered interestingly.. The man who can fit his language into the demands of t he situation successfully hardly loses the love of anybody. He is considered to be the witty individual around. ShakespearesOthello was an honest lover, an emotionally surcharged person, but his Iago was an artist in curse not just for his sinister actions but for his witty, deliberately-contrived language that enabled himself to achieve his objective. In Macbeth, the three witches equivocal language veers the direction of the play, quite considerably. In exponent Lear ,too, Cordelias plain , un-ornamental, unexaggerated language did not go well with situation. The situation demanded a little more adulation from Cordelia. Only because of the lack of filagree in the language, she suffered throughout her life till she breathed her lastThus,language has several shades of its own. Hundreds of situations demand hundreds of treatments and responses. When the subordinate employee approaches his boss for a leave of a couple of days for an immediate assignment, can he talk impolitely? No , never. He has to keep his boss in good humor, so that his quest may not be turned down in a jiffy.Man has to remain cautious about the use of language. Even a slip of tongue can end a husband-wife-bond of warmth and togetherness .Similarly a word of pride can trigger off an internecine war between two nations over years. No doubt, language can make or mar anything and everything. It is absolutely true