where colonizer language is now valued. In relation to the English language, young people are understood as the "drivers of linguistic change," which has been identified as creating adverse effects for elderly people who experience increased linguistic alienation "even as they control the institutions – universities, publishers, newspapers, broadcasters – that define standard English." Solutions Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio describe that "the problem of linguistic alienation cannot be adequately solved simply by denouncing deviations from paradigms that are pre-established or that are proposed within the boundaries of this or that language viewed as a self-sufficient system; or simply by constructing one's own model of how language should be." In this sense, language would be placed in relation to itself (a problem of syntax). Petrilli and Ponzio propose that language should be understood in relation to existence itself through connecting the linguistic to the non-linguistic. Because words each have attached meanings that come along with their usage, some scholars posit the usage of symbols to remedy the loadedness of language as well as using body language in combination with language. References Existentialist concepts Philosophy of life Language interpretation