Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness of Alien Terms Interference in a Culture of Multilingual Counties

Abstract

Mohammad Ibrahim Qani

Language serves as a foundation of cultural identity, deeply entangled with the social and historical contexts of a community. This paper examines the ineffectiveness of interference by alien words within a culture. Drawing on sociolinguistic theories and case studies from diverse linguistic environments, it is argued that the forced introduction or adoption of foreign lexicon often fails to achieve its intended socio-cultural objectives. Instead, indigenous languages demonstrate resilience, adapting to or resisting external influences through unique strategies. The effectiveness of this research highlights the futility of attempting to impose linguistic uniformity and underscores the importance of understanding local cultural dynamics in preserving linguistic heritage. This pure language understanding directly relates to translation knowledge where linguists and translators need to work and research to eradicate misunderstanding. Misunderstandings mostly appear in non-equivalent words because there are different local and internal words like food, garment, cultural and traditional words, and others in every notion. Truly, most of these words do not have an equivalent in the target language and these words need to be worked and find their equivalent in the target language to fully understand both languages. The purpose of this research is to introduce the challenges and ineffectiveness of cultural influences in different notions where people do not see the facts of cultural enrichment. However, some of these ineffectiveness have been clearly mentioned in this research but some effective ways have also been dictated.

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