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Language: How It Interacts with Culture

Language : How It Interacts with Culture

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31-5-2009

It is widely observed that gradually as culture evolves , the language also changes . In the course of change , many new words are added and obsolete ones are dropped from the language . Beliefs and Value Systems also varies from culture to culture and people use language to express these values verbally . Hence the language is said to reflect its particular culture . Since different cultures have different values beliefs , attitudes

, cognition and emotions to objects hence the language of a particular culture may convey an entirely unique meaning of that thing . So each language has its own classification system developed by the cultural significance . The same object , event or concept might elicit entirely different meaning and emotions in different language because the culture of that language might have some unusual relationship with that object

Culture is not only about attributes or facts it is basically a style of living . Language is one way of expressing that style . Hence language tells us a great deal about how a particular culture views the world around . For example , English has one form for you ' but Saulteaux have two forms , kin ' singular and kinawa ' plural . Similarly , English also have one form for we ' but Saulteaux have two forms "ninawint the exclusive and "kinawint " the inclusive . This is how the two languages differ in using pronoun . The Saulteaux in this example is much more comprehensive...

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