Language and Culture Flashcards
It is the source communicating or connecting people to other people
Language
It consists of 4 elements (language):
Human property
System of systems
Symbol system
Verbal and vocal (language and sound)
It is defined as the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society
Culture
Culture includes the following:
behavior, values, thoughts, language region, traditions
It is the fundamental culture identity for this reason it is important that people keep their own ( ) alive
Language
It influenced by culture, but it influence culture
Language
What are the entirely form bicultural elements in terms of language?
Natural environment, economic systems, and types of social relationships
What are the types of language?
lexicon, vocabulary, grammar rule, and rules of linguistic communication
Who are the two American linguistics?
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whof
According to him, human beings do not live in society alone and language of the society predispose certain choices of interpretation about how we view the world
Edward Sapir
According to him, we dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages, and we categorize objects in the scheme laid by the language, and if we do not subscribe to this classification, we cannot talk or communicate.
Benjamin Whorf
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis consists of two associated principle what are these?
Linguistic determinism and Linguistic relativity
language may determine our thinking patterns, the way we view and think about the world.
it is also called strong determinism
Linguistic determinism
The less similar the languages, more diverse their conceptualization of the world different languages view the world differently
Linguistic relativity
According to him, When groups of people begin to mix and mingle their cultural attributes with them.
“The limits of my language or the limits of my world”.
Dr. Heatwale
