Language structure and environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment it makes the argument that the social cultural and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. Title language structure and environment social cultural and natural factors cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts author dc 915df0a117bfyigedamacom 2021 01 21t000000 0001. This book is an attempt to give an overview of how language interacts with its environment or better how actual linguistic structure is formed changed and influenced by different aspects of the human environment the focus is mainly on effects of the extra linguistic environment on the actual grammatical structure of languages we will leave . Social cultural and natural factors cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts language structure and environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment it makes the argument that the social cultural and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak page 6 29. Language structure and environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment it makes the argument that the social cultural and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak