Digital Society’s Acquisition of Language and Behavior
Society is the total conglomerate of human beings on Earth, which is subject to the same emergent economic dictates that are delineated by Earth’s confines (Wikipedia contributors, 2022).[1] [2]
The SARS-CoV-2 virus incited what the World Health Organization (WHO) refers to as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern; this was in January 2020. In March that same year, the WHO escalated the status of the emergency to a pandemic (Cucinotta & Vanelli, n.d.). For the first time during a pandemic, Society was rigged together to socialize and communicate in real time. This newly connected fledgling Society collectively muttered — and often repurposed — old words as new, such as “social distancing,” and the American Federal classification of “essential worker.” [3] [4]
From about six to twelve months of age, children go from babbling to speaking their first words, to forming full sentences by their third year; at that age, languag…
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