Peter Trudgill Famous Quotes
Reading Peter Trudgill quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by Peter Trudgill. Righ click to see or save pictures of Peter Trudgill quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.
. . . irrational attitudes and discriminatory decisions, often made by governments or other official bodies acting out of ignorance or prejudice, have led to language policies which have had detrimental effects on children's education and even on societies as a whole.
Because language and society are so closely linked, it is possible, in some cases, to encourage social change by directing attention towards linguistic reflections of aspects of society that one would like to see altered.
The fact is that none of us can unilaterally decide what a word means. Meanings of words are shared between people - they are a kind of social contract we all agree to - otherwise communication would not be possible.
