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In my work as a mentor, I tutored a girl in elementary school who had a very difficult time saying the word “lake.” I used the word “lake” as part of a homework exercise. Think back to our discussion of how language influences your social reality. People constantly produce language to categorize and organize the world. Quite simply, we’d have no way of participating in our world without it.

For most of us this means that we may first learn language from our parents, but as we grow older, other family members, friends, educators and even the media impact our vocabularies and our choices regarding what language we use. \)Īs was noted at the beginning of this chapter, language is culturally transmitted-we learn our language from those around us.