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The relationship between culture and language
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Jumat, 25 Maret 2011
POINT I
Introduction
A. Background
Appearing
of the culture always be supported by many languages. In any culture or
region, language is much more than semantics, much more than what the
written page or the spoken word can contain. This especially becomes
clear when studying a foreign language and learning the ways of a
particular culture. For example, the use of introductions, salutations,
everyday sayings, etc. This area in particular gives more weight to
culture then to the words themselves. Anyone studying a foreign language
has to be bicultural as well as bilingual to speak the new language in a
way that it is not disparaging to the culture and its origin. Language
does not end at the meaning or the use of words associated to a culture"
words represent beliefs, history, and the culture of their origin and
they must be used accordingly.
