Language and productiveness

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Language and productiveness

By Diego Clemenceau

Abstract: One of the first activities created by the human being, is communication. Hand movings, later screams and sounds, become along the centuries in the articulated language. Like a dynamic entity, language has evolved along human history. But this evolution is not linear, many languages stop to use; this are death languages. But taking them as start point, new languages developed, taking that ancient languages as basement. Along the time, many people has watch for the adequate use of the language, especially in written media. But across de 20th Century, with the development of the mass media, all languages, not only English or Spanish, has a neglect use and abuse. Is a paradox, but in the Information Era now we live, most of the time language is poorly used. And this overcome media, to affect all places: schools, government, business and companies. From our point of view, a language improvement is necessary to be more efficient in our work, our business, in our whole life.

Introduction. The language is something we take for granted. We learn the “phonetic map” of our mother tongue between the six and the 11 months of birth. That means that in this period we learn to hear and recognize the sounds of any language. Even, A baby exposed to different languages in this period, may learn to recognize (and after to talk) this languages.

Past some time, around 18-20 months old, a baby has a vocabulary of about 150-300 words. But the right pronunciation and context is a longer process that come around 6 or 7 years old. In this period a child can use hundreds of words and use a correct syntaxes.

During this period of childhood, every person acquire his “mental map of language”. This means in this period configure their basic language form. Even, this change during the social and scholar life.

When this person ends his formative period and comes to the social and working activity, the theory is that this man or girl counts with enough knowledge and communication capabilities to face the world. This sounds great, but isn’t completely true.

Other formation sources. During this period, are a parallel info source: electronic mass media. Radio, and principally TV and since some years, Internet, are one source of knowledge that acts during more time in a person’s life that school formation.

It’s not a secret that in the last 30 years, TV programs pass from educative contents to explode mainly violence and sex. Currently we hear that at twelve years, a child has seen ten thousand murders and know about sex more than his father. And it happened about internet too. Only in Youtube, the most seen content is music videos, followed by comedy.

This other formation sources has a “surprise” problem: the bad language use. Not only we talk about rudeness or vulgarity; we mean the bad use of

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