language and culture

A.      According to Claire Kramsch, Language is :

1.      The principle means whereby we conduct our social lives. When it is used in context of communication, it is bound up with culture in multiple and complex ways.

2.      A system of sign that is seen as having itself a cultural value

3.      A guide to social reality. Though language is not ordinarily thouht of as of essential interest to the people of social science, it powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.

4.      According to W.N francis language is an arbitrary system of articulated sounds made use of by a group of humans as a means of carrying on the affairs of their society.

5.      According to Chomsky, language is a set of sentences, each fenite in length and constracted out of a finite set of elements.

6.      In my mind, language is a thing which we use it forcommunicate each other.

B.      In Claire cramsch’s book, he said that Emily Dickinson poem has serverd to illuminate several aspects of culture. There are :

1.      Culture is always the result of human intervention in the Biological processes of Nature.

2.      Culture is the product of socially and historically situated discourse communities, that are to a large extent imagined communities, created and shaped by language.

3.      Cultures both liberates and constrains. It liberates by convesting the randomness of nature with meaning, order, and rationality and by providing safeguards against chaos; it constrain by imposing a structure on nature by limiting the range of possible meanings created by the individual.

4.      A communities language and its material achievments represent a social patrimony and a simbolic capital that serve tp perpetuate relationship of power and domination; they distinguish insider from outside.

C.      The relationship between Language and Culture :

According to Aubrey Neil Leveridge, The relationship between language and culture is deeply rooted. Language is used to maintain and convey culture and cultural ties. Different ideas stem from differing language use within one’s culture and the whole intertwining of these relationships start at one’s birth.