LANGUAGE VERSUS IDENTITY: HOW CULTURE AND LITERATURE SHAPE THE PERSONAL SPHERE OF ADVANCED MULTILINGUALS?

Аннотация

This article investigates the association between language and identity among proficient multilinguals, emphasizing the key points of culture and literature as shapers of the personal formation. Many individuals feel immersed after trying to dive into multiple languages through different cultural backgrounds, literature frameworks, self-perception, and humor that they got in a fast-paced globalized world. Playing a pivotal role as a reflection of someone's historical values and cultural identity, language also further navigates the way of thinking among multilinguals by shaping their mindset completely differently. In turn, this serves as a globalization act and offers several insights to better understand common sense and lead the community quickly from different backgrounds. By understanding society and expressing opinions fluently, advanced multilinguals often undergo changes in their personal sphere as they navigate through cultural differences. The ambiguity locked the doors first when those nuances had an impact on language learners and became clearer as language proficiency was enhanced. It also had been felt that literature, in its own, changes how people feel emotionally, their native- like thinking, and how they get along with language. By examining the cultural understanding via language and literature, this study references examples and explanations from different scholars to expand and express how multilinguals experience the transformation in their personal sphere ofinneridentity. Key words: Proficient multilinguals, language, identity, literature, culture, cultural backgrounds, personal sphere, communicate.