Mohamed Baiya
Research paper 11-12-2013
Language and Culture
Nothing distinguishes the human race from the rest of the species clearly more than owning the language and culture; Using language attributes unique to our species, we can connect any something notify minds. This ability enables us to learn from the lessons of previous generations and added to them; we live the values that you have gained in the past , as well as trial and error, to improve our lives . Has developed a combination of culture and language invincible human beings on the planet throne.
However, the question remains oriented anthropologists and linguistics is not about the reason behind the greatness of language and culture to this point, but what makes them
Important in the first place.
We know that those two tools interrelated, and the core issue is to understand the nature of this relationship. Since the philosophical era of Aristotle and Plato, I found two basic ways, it is the Platonic perspective comes « innate theory that believes that language is predetermined, and that it has a constant form is subject to change dictated by genes (or gods) . It is through the one-way; where facilitate language culture while not affecting the culture, the language, but in a minimalistic. But the idea of Aristotle says that many of the features identified by the language and cultural traditions serves socially.
Over the past fifty years ago, followed the prevailing theory see Plato, saying that language is an innate ability ...
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...e differ from those used by men; phrase « I love those blouse with purple pale » often will be the one who says lady, , unlike women who tend to the classical formulas . Similarly, differentiate culture among the spelling, the men and women of the language because they « are interested in it.
Any language that does not include the feature repeatability will be an example inversely refute this hypothesis, and this is what would argue that it applies to the language; This language refutes feature repeatability alleged Even when can learn repetition in other languages or show evidence of thinking recursively, as is the case with speakers language. Thus, if there is one language can exist without tag repeatability, all other languages can in terms of principle, and this contrasts with the claim that the repeatability is a prerequisite indispensable for human contact.
Even though linguistics and psychologists are united in the notion that language is a natural system, there is a contradiction of way language originated and evolved. The leading theories are: grand change theory, gradual emergence theory, neo-Darwinian theory, and gene interaction theory (Aaron & Joshi, 2006). This paper will analyse two theories that have a biological perspective of the way language has evolved. The two theories that will be highlighted are neo-Darwinian and the gradual change with a further emphasis on the predictions that the theories make about the future.
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An ongoing battle of culture, freedom, and language occurs in America today. The battle is commonly called Bilingualism. The dictionary definition: being able to speak multiple languages. Though, when you dig deeper, you discover the hunger of differing tongues. Many people believe bilingualism should have a certain role in the public and education. One of these figures is Martin Espada who believe that bilingualism is also respecting one's culture. He believes that there should be more effort put into understanding different cultures and languages. An opposing figure to this is poet and author, Richard Rodriguez, who believes bilingualism should not be emphasized in the public and education system. Rather being able to speak one language and communicating is superior.
The debate nature/nurture has been a fascinating open question for many years in the field of language development and acquisition. The focus of the dichotomy aspires to understand if language depends on an innate biological endowment or because of the environmental input we receive from the external world. The literature about the nature/nurture debate counts many different theories that have as crucial topics of discussion whether either nature or nurture plays the leading role in language development. One of the most famous theories is the nativist approach, whose father, Noam Chomsky, maintains that language is innate in human because of the Universal Grammar. Actually, according to Chomsky, this ‘gift’ is the child’s initial language faculty and exists prior to any linguistic experience, so that it gives the child the ability to acquire any language (Karmilloff, 2002). In contrast to this theory, the cognitive approach states that language is not innate because we do not have a Universal Grammar, but we learn language through general learning mechanisms. In other words, language is acquired through input and experiences in the environment. Another interesting point of view about the debate nature/nurture are the researches carried out by Lenneberg, who was influenced in his theoretical and practical studies both by Chomsky and by Piaget, father of the cognitive approach that I briefly introduced below. Lenneberg studied atypical language development and carried researches in particular on deaf children, children with focal brain damages and c...
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To continue with the key features, language is known to be special because of how children are able to learn in ways that are different from learning other things. (Willingham, 2007). Strong evidence shows how prepared the human brain is to learn language with very little stimulation. The results that show this point of view to be true is known to be the worldwide consistency of language learning.
Biological foundation of language may contribute significantly to such universality. The issue here is not whether language is innate, for, clearly, language must be learned. Nor is the issue whether the aptitude for learning a la...
There ason why the study of the relationship between language and culture is of great significance to translation is that “A language is a part of a culture and a culture is a part of language, the two are intricately interwoven so that one cannot separate the two without losing the significance of either language or culture.” That is one cannot translate a language without translating the culture underlying the language. Culture is a fundamental concept in anthropology, The classical definition of which was first put forward by E.B. Tylor in his Primitive Culture
It is known, even to a person to whom the entire study of language isn't familiar, that the language is the greatest factor on which most of the human activities depend. Without any form of language, any cooperation and communication would be almost, if not totally impossible (World Book Encyclopedia 62). This significance of language is what draws scientists to study origin, differences and connections between languages. Constant change of today's languages is what amazes linguists even more. With the emergings of the new nations there was quite a number of new languages. One such case is the language of Former Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian, which is now called Croatian by Croats, Bosnian by Bosnians, and Serbian by Serbs. Though these languages were once united and actually dialects of one another, they split as the three nations split. With this came huge amounts of new words in Croatian and Bosnian which caused the Serbo-Croatian to rupture even further. There are few conditions that keep a language unchanged. They include a stable government, good communication, a centralized educational system, a set of beliefs and traditions, and a spirit of national unity (63) Beginning And Change of Language Today's languages all have three basic systems, phonology, grammar, and semology, and many have fourth system, writing. In the beginning, people talked and conversed, but they needed something that would record and later on recall words (Sparke 42). This destitution has resulted in early alphabets, pictograms. Pictures were used to represent objects and items. It was easy for people to represent those objects with the pictograms but it also was very hard to find a pictogram that would fulfill idea of, for example, craving (Laind 50-54). ...
The intimacy between culture and communication exists in the fact that actors interact by way of communication which is a technique used to continue the established patterns of meaning, thinking, feeling and acting. There are common characteristics in most definitions of culture. These characteristics are that culture is shared and is a stable construct, consisting of patterns, values, symbols, meanings, beliefs, assumptions and expectations. The characteristics of culture mean that culture is socially constructed and, therefore, must be learned.
There has been considerable historical discourse over the nature of language. Most contend that thought and language are two interrelated criteria. Just how these criteria relate to the controversy over whether animals have language capabilities and even more specifically to the Sapir-Whorf human language thought debate, however, is not always clear. From a human context we know that language is a skill which allows us to communicate our thoughts to others and in so doing to attain desired "biological, cognitive, and social/behavioral feedback" (McDonnell, 1977). The question as to whether language is a skill that human beings are born with or whether it is a skill that is acquired is a complex one and not one in which all researchers are in agreement.