Study Of Any Aspect Of The Relation Of Language To Culture

Understanding the Relationship Between Language & Culture and the implications for language teaching and learning.
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Understanding the Relationship Between Language & Culture and the implications for language teaching and learning.
Language is more than spoken words; this is evident when we study a second language. Studying another language involves learning the cultural norms and annotation related to the language specific culture. When learning a foreign language, more weight is on culture than the language itself. Studying foreign language requires both linguistic skills and cultural skills. Learning language entails more than just learning how to use words associated with culture, but also understanding the cultural norms and history.[Kramsch, C. "Language and culture in foreign language learning." The Routledge handbook of language and culture. 2015: 634-644.]
This paper analyzes the association between culture and language in the learning process, highlighting the significant function of culture in language learning. The paper also analyzes language as a communication tool that facilitates communication and how it affects both teaching and learning. Since every language has a symbol, each symbol contain a concept, the paper analyzes how language codes are perceived by different people from different ethnic backgrounds.
The relationship between culture and language
People communicate using different languages, meaning that language is a communication tool that promotes integration. Language also facilitates communication between people. Culture involves the communication process that assists people to interact. Culture facilitates due to the shared norms. Communication among individuals occurs because these people share certain common cultural norms. For example, India and the Indian culture are inseparable because people living in India are units of ethnic communities that form the republic India. India is their national identity because of its part of their culture. The main functions of a cultural system are identity and communication facilitator. Culture units the diverse Indian communities.[Stewart, Pamela J., and Andrew J. Strathern. "Language and culture." In Breaking the Frames, pp. 69-78. Springer International Publishing, 2017.] [Bonvillain, Nancy. Language, culture, and communication. Pearson Higher Ed, 2013.]
Culture can also be in the form of activities that are created from our minds or through reasoning like faith. Humans have culture because they have the sense of reason and establish a culture. The cultural notion can be analyzed using anthropological science. From this perspective, culture is the product and result of constant human behavior that is acquired by learning.[Athanasopoulos, Panos, Emanuel Bylund, and Daniel Casasanto. "Introduction to the Special Issue: New and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Linguistic Relativity." Language Learning 66, no. 3 (2016): 482-486.]
Culture is then viewed as a learned behavior that is necessary for a group, meaning that cultures are obtained through learning. In this case, culture entails things that generate creativity, innovativeness and any efforts where human strive to improve his living standards by adapting to ...