Symbolic Language

Language is symbolic, and there are many symbols that can be interpreted without someone saying a word. Every culture has their symbols, and when I was reading this part in our text, I could not have agreed more. When I came to US, I immediately noticed, the differences between symbols, and colors. Some things are completely different, especially signs. In the country where I was born there was even more symbols, and many symbols mean luck, or trouble. Yellow flowers were often called the funeral flowers, and odd number of flowers were only given at the funeral, even amounts are usually given for birthday and happy events. There are even acts that are associated with symbols, and people do believe that they bring luck, or opposite. There are multiple ways you can say a name, and you would not be wrong. My name for instance can be said in 5-6 ways, and it would mean completely same name. So it is important to understand symbolic speaking, and also it is tight together with linguistic relativity.