English Literature and Linguistics Task 2

Question: Discuss about theEnglish Literature and Linguisticsfor Task 2. Answer: Task 2 Figure 1: My interactions with the various people that make up my social world My social world is made up of different categories and groups of people, each with whom we relate with differently. The social world is observable through the daily activities, interactions and engagements at home, school, church and when online with friends. As depicted in the diagram above, the social world that I live in is interrelated in many ways and some even overlap at some point. My school mates are also my friends and some double up as my church mates. At the same time, my family doubles up as my church mates and some of my relatives are my school mates. Maintaining such a social world varies with the type of relationship and how I relate with one group is different from how I relate with another group. Ballantine and Roberts (2008) observes that relationships in the social world are built majorly by how we relate with people and the type of communication used. From the diagram, it is depicted that some groups are more formal than others. For example, the language that I use when chatting with my friends online is informal and does not require any observation of the rules of communication as long as it is not offensive. However, this is different when it comes to dealing with the school management. Sometimes, this might extend to my classmates but in most cases, formal and informal communication is observed while in class. It is the way we communicate that determines the social world that we will hold around us as observed by Kashima et al. (2006). Kashima and group reiterates that people that we hang out with and the places that we frequent form our social world. Therefore, our social world depends largely on how we communicate with others and how we relate with them. References Ballantine, J. H., Roberts, K. A. (Eds.). (2008).Our social world: Introduction to sociology. Pine forge press. Kashima, Y., Kashima, E. S., Kim, U., Gelfand, M. (2006). Describing the social world: How is a person, a group, and a relationship described in the East and the West?.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,42(3), 388-396.