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Studying how people use language – what words and phrases they unconsciously choose and combine – can help us better understand ourselves and why we behave the way we do.
Language focuses on spoken and written expressions while culture focuses on the identity of a certain group of people. But these concepts are homologous to each other. Both of them share the realities, behaviors, and human values of a specific group of people.
Language is an arbitrary and conventional symbolic resource situated within a cultural system. While it marks speakers’ different assumptions and worldviews, it also creates much tension in communication. Therefore, scholars have long sought to understand the role of language in human communication.
While culture encompasses the shared beliefs, values, and practices of a group, language serves as the means of communication and expression within that culture. Both culture and language shape our identities, facilitate social cohesion, and contribute to our understanding of the world.
The interplay between language and culture extends beyond just cognitive representations of language (i.e., internal processes), but also to how people communicate with each other (e.g., external processes).
Transmission of language and culture. Language is transmitted culturally; that is, it is learned. To a lesser extent it is taught, when parents, for example, deliberately encourage their children to talk and to respond to talk, correct their mistakes, and enlarge their vocabulary.
“Language evolves as a means of expressing culture.” Culture has an impact on the language used within a society’s limits. It is as to how specific terms are also employed to support the culture.
the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world?
This article reviews recent trends in research on the relation between language, culture and thought to capture how cognitive psychology and cultural psychology have defined ‘language’ and ‘culture,’ and how this issue was addressed within each research discipline.
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first authoritative and comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of lan-