Paper Title
Language and Culture: Rethinking Language through the Aspects of Culture and Ideology
Abstract
- Language and culture are linked through the use of language in communicating knowledge and shaping social life and ideology. A language is an excellent tool for organizing specific realities, such as different social relationships and systems. It plays a role in maintaining and communicating cultures and cultural ties. Different ideas arise from the use of different languages across cultures. The entanglement of these relationships begins at birth. When a child is born, it is like any other child. They are very similar. It is only when exposed to their environment that children become individuals within and outside their cultural group. This idea, which proclaims that all humans are born equal, has existed for thousands of years and has been discussed by Confucius. From birth, a child's life, opinions, and language are shaped by what they come into contact with. It is the primary vehicle used in context, and communication is linked to culture in many complex ways. Humans represent transferable facts, ideas, or events as they relate to a set of knowledge about the world shared by other humans. In other words, language expresses cultural reality. These people not only describe their experiences but create them through language. Through mediums, they choose to communicate with each other. For example, talking on the phone or face-to-face, writing letters, sending messages by email, reading newspapers, and reading graphics that interpret them to give meaning. Language embodies cultural reality in all its verbal and non-verbal dimensions. People identify and differentiate themselves and others using language. Their speakers often perceive the prohibition of their use as a rejection of their social group and culture. Therefore, it can be said that language symbolizes cultural reality.
Keywords - Culture and Language, Language and Ideology, Cultural Reality, Communication, Social Life.