Wednesday, 22 February 2012


The relation to culture from language.

Although many people believe that you have to speak a language to understand the way that it develops and grows over time with the ways that the community develops. You don’t have to speak a language to pick up on the basics. Over time the culture grows effecting how modest people are and how they act towards different situations, the way that the culture changes also will change the language with the way that we would speak, for example how formal or informal our speaking will become.

The culture of different countries will affect the way we act, so for example, in Italy the Italian culture is very warm and inviting and the country very much reflects the culture in how it is very inviting. If you live in Italy, it does not mean your Italian or speak Italian, but over time you would pick up on some of the language to get by and communicate with the people who has grown up there. Gradually over time you would pick up ion the basic elements of the culture, from little things like how much eye contact, how loud to talk and what things to highlight when talking.

Different languages use different parts of their language to express something, depending on their beliefs, values, expectations, and rituals, so this would affect what the culture of a language would be focused on. Some languages would focus on what you are doing, yet other languages would focus on the way you are doing something.



Composed By Alysha



Bibliography

Wiki answers

http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/lazear/personal/PDFs/culture%20and%20language.pdf

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