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  2. Language preservation - Wikipedia

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    Language is an important part of any society, because it enables people to communicate and express themselves. When a language dies out, future generations lose a vital part of the culture that is necessary to completely understand it. This makes language a vulnerable aspect of cultural heritage, and

  3. Language - Wikipedia

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    Language is processed in many different locations in the human brain, but especially in Broca's and Wernicke's areas. Humans acquire language through social interaction in early childhood, and children generally speak fluently by approximately three years old. Language and culture are codependent.

  4. Linguistic anthropology - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use.

  5. Cross-cultural communication - Wikipedia

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    Different spoken languages. Spoken language is the most important communication tool between people. Spoken language is seen as people's natural production tool, more common and normal, while written language is seen as intricate because of its broad rules. [citation needed] The same language has different meanings in different contexts. When ...

  6. Sociolinguistics - Wikipedia

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    Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the interaction between society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context and language and the ways it is used. It can overlap with the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society.

  7. Intercultural communication - Wikipedia

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    Intercultural communication is a discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication.It describes the wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally appear within an organization or social context made up of individuals from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

  8. Cultural emphasis - Wikipedia

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    Cultural emphasis is an important aspect of a culture which is often reflected though language and, more specifically, vocabulary. [1] This means that the vocabulary people use in a culture indicates what is important to that group of people.

  9. Sociology of language - Wikipedia

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    Sociology of language seeks to understand the way that social dynamics are affected by individual and group language use. According to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Chair of Language Center [ 6 ] Su-Chiao Chen, language is considered to be a social value within this field, which researches social groups for phenomena like ...