The initial emergence of the language is due to the need to transmit information to fellow tribespeople. Symbols have always been used to convey information in this way. They represent an extensive designation of an event, an object, or a person in the form of a simple drawing that could be depicted alone at a fast speed. In addition to transmitting and storing information, symbols, and subsequently a structured and complex language, participated in cognition, helping to develop the cognitive component of life in society. In modern culture, language, symbols, and non-verbal symbols are the most crucial aspect of socialization in a particular group of people (Russel, 2015). Studying the language and subsequently using it for different purposes, a person builds himself into an information canvas that is adequate and relevant in a given society.
Established social relations form communication within the necessary and adequate framework and boundaries. Arranging and framing is the main communication component sewn into the social structure. In the formation of communication, a person’s social status, possible power, and significance in the group play an important role. All this is established in the structure of society, which, by its nature, is hierarchical (Kraus, 2015). The ability to use a specific language, symbols, understandable only to a narrow circle of people, should be subordinate to one or another status of a person.
The influence of status on the construction of communication and the use of a specific language accompanies all people throughout their lives, and I am no exception. The school became, for me, the first most crucial place where the social hierarchy influenced the formation of special rules of communication. Communication with the teacher was filled with other symbols and included a specific language that was inadequate to use with peers or close relatives. Later, time transformed the student-teacher relationship and the accompanying communication into a relationship between boss and subordinate. Such examples, however, are trivial and are due to a specific status, which a host of other factors accompanies (DeLamater, Myers, and Collett, 2015). Another example of a particular communication (verbal and subtle non-verbal) and, importantly, specific unique symbols is romantic communication and flirting.
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DeLamater, J.D., Myers, D.J., and Collett, J.L. (2015). Social psychology. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Kraus, E. (2015). Developing sociological hypotheses 4 mins [Video]. YouTube. Web.
Russel, D. (2015). Hypotheses and variables in social research [Video]. YouTube. Web.