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What Is The Relationship of Language and Culture?

The document discusses the relationship between language and culture. Some key points: - Language and culture are closely intertwined - language is the tool we use to communicate and interact with others, while culture provides the rules and norms for how to communicate appropriately. - Culture is learned, shared, cumulative, changing, and diverse. It encompasses values, beliefs, norms, symbols, and modes of communication of a society. - The components of culture include communication systems like language and symbols, cognitive systems like values and accounts, behavioral norms, and material expressions. - Enculturation is learning one's native culture, while acculturation is adopting a new host culture. Assimilation involves changes

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What Is The Relationship of Language and Culture?

The document discusses the relationship between language and culture. Some key points: - Language and culture are closely intertwined - language is the tool we use to communicate and interact with others, while culture provides the rules and norms for how to communicate appropriately. - Culture is learned, shared, cumulative, changing, and diverse. It encompasses values, beliefs, norms, symbols, and modes of communication of a society. - The components of culture include communication systems like language and symbols, cognitive systems like values and accounts, behavioral norms, and material expressions. - Enculturation is learning one's native culture, while acculturation is adopting a new host culture. Assimilation involves changes

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Jonathan G.

Tabaog
BS Physics 1
Purposive communication
Language and Culture
1. What is the relationship of language and culture?
- The relationship between language and culture is a complex topic, so let me begin by
defining the two. Language is something that we use or it is a tool in able for us to
communicate, while culture is simply the values and beliefs in a society. The relationship of
culture and language then is that, the way they share human values, realities and behavior
of a social group. Language allows us to interact while culture tells us how to do so correctly.
In short, language is the flesh and culture is the blood.
2. The following are characteristics of culture. Explain and provide example for each:
a. Culture is learned because we do not inherit it. It is not biological. We learn culture from
family, peers, and even media.
Ex. I have Filipino parents but I was born in America. I may develop traits, characteristics
and behavior pattern of American, including their language.
b. Culture is shared because we share culture with other members of our group, we act in
socially appropriate ways as well as predict how others will act.
Ex. Idea that during marriage, it only involves a man and a woman which is cultural in our
society.
c. Culture is cumulative because culture wasn’t made for a day or a year. It gradually
accumulates through centuries. Art and knowledge are stored and became part of culture.
Hence, culture is social heritage.
Ex. Jeepney and trycicle in the Philippines.
d. Culture is change because culture undergoes through innovations, inventions and discovery
and it needs to adopt from its changing environment.
e. Culture is dynamic, means that it interacts and change. Culture is related with other
cultures, if environment change then culture adopts.
Ex. Growth of language, Filipino dictionary has grown because of borrowed words.
f. Culture is ideational because it embodies ideals, values and norms of social group which is
expected to follow.
Ex.
g. Culture is diverse means people from different group play different roles, having different
practices, values and tradition.
Ex. How wedding ceremony was held is different from a culture to another culture.
h. Culture gives us range of permissible behavior pattern is something that allows to
enumerate how something should have done.
Ex. How an individual should dressed based on his gender.
3. Enumerate components of culture
Communication
1. symbol- form the backbone of symbolic interaction. Anything that carries a particular
meaning.
2. Language- it forms the core of all culture. When people share a language, they share a
condensed, very flexible set of symbols or meaning.
Cognitive component
1. Values- defined as culturally defined standards of desirability, goodness and beauty, which
serve as abroad guidelines for social living.
2. Accounts- how a common people use language to explain and justify behavior.
Behavioral component
1. Norms- rules and expectations by which a society guides behavior of its number.
Norms

Material component
- The form and function of object is an expression of culture and culturally defines behavior.

4. Differentiate the following:


a. Enculturation- the process by which an individual learns the traditional content of a culture
and assimilates its practices and values
b. Acculturation-the process by which a human being acquires the culture of a particular
society from infancy
c. Assimilation- broader concept and refers to the manner in which people take new
information.

Difference- enculturation refers to the process of learning your own native culture, whereas,
acculturation is the process of learning and adopting host cultural norm and values.
Assimilation is when a majority culture is change as well as minority culture. Acculturation
occurs when minority culture changes but still able to retain unique cultural maker of
language, food and customs.

5. What is cultural relativism- it is the ability to understand a culture on its own term and not to
make judgements using the standard of one’s own culture.
Ex. We tend to frame nudity in general as an inherently sexual thing, and so when people are in
nude in public, people may interpret this as a sexual signal. But in many places around the
world, being nude or partially nude in public is a normal part of life.
6. Differentiate the following:
a. High context vs. low context cultures
- High context culture are those in which rules of communication are primarily transmitted
through the use of contextual elements while low context cultures the information are
communicated in primarily through language and rules are spelled out. In short, high
context rely on context while low context relies on explicit verbal communication.
b. Sequential vs. synchronic cultures
- Sequential culture see time as one-line consisting of equal building blocks while synchronic,
time is flexible and various activities can take place at the same time.
7. Explain. “to speak to a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
Language is a part of culture; one cannot stand without the other half. If someone tries to
speak and learn the language, then he/she is now creating connection and starting to
understand the culture of the people who speak it.
Simply put, language allows us to express our thoughts and feelings, it allows us to
communicate and share knowledge with one another. And in learning a new language, its
impossible for someone to fully master it unless he/she understand the culture, just like you’ll
never fully understand it until you start to immersed yourself.
Mastering a language means really being able to understand people who grew up with an
entirely different set of values and belief. You have to open yourself up to these differences
because language reflects the values and beliefs of a culture.

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