Authors
Deepika Selvaraj
Abstract
For human, both language and culture are important. The characteristics and values of the nation show the culture of that country. This culture is reflected in the form of language in which one speaks. Language is considered as the most effective way for determining the identity of person and their cultural background. The establishing of the identity of one’s is difficult without language. Culture also give the influence on the language. Different nations have different cultures because of many factors such as geographical areas, social differences and culture patterns. These factors are very from country to country as one country follow the past premises while other country believes in the future generation due to which the sentence has become changed about the same thing. This paper shows the values of culture and language and the relation between them by their role for each other. Keywords: Culture, Language, Identity, Culture Pattern
Introduction
From last two decades, language, culture and identity and the relation between among has been become an interesting topic in the field of social science. All social lives and experience of nation is stored by the language that reflects the characteristics of culture of the nation. The child learns a language with the same time of culture learning of the nation. Person cannot learn the language without knowing the culture of a nation. In general, language is a technical, social and cultural instrument that play a special role in attaining the culture knowledge. Human use language for expressing their opinions. The language is learned in which many variables play an important role in aptitudes, intelligence, personality and age these affective variables include attitude, orientation, motivation and anxiety. This phenomenon ‘Language’ also has an importance in acculturation and socialization. By the use of language, the racial and cultural identity of society can be remarked at the time of evolution. The importance of language can be realized only by the imagination of lack of language that can easily be understood that human civilization and culture would be destroyed. Hence, language is an important phenomenon that should be considered with different aspects.
Culture
Some different theories and contradictory definition of cultural have been discussed. In these theories, some defined it is in the term of acquisitive matter, that is: The collection of patterns and moral norms which is spread from one generation to another generation by the process of learning. Others gave another definition of culture as thews of living. The English literary thinkers ‘Mative Arnold’ who assist the culture as it is an idealistic aspect and formation of values. According to him, absolute perfection search, use of best thoughts and matters that have a relation and link with us are included in the culture. Culture controls the activities of society. Definition given by Tyler are used by the sociologists because their definition is considered as the complete definition which is as: The complex collection of sciences, art, knowledge, believes, provisions, thoughts, customs and tradition also includes the habits achieved by the humans as a member of society.
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