Why Is Language Important to Culture? - 0 views
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Why Is Language Important?
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language is much more than just a means of communication. It is also an inseparable part of our culture.
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different cultures have a predominant fashion in which they use their language and they have differences which cannot be underestimated.
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one of the most well known linguists in the world, argues that all languages are dialects of one language, which is the human language. He says that even though they appear very different, they are in fact very similar.
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Asian cultures use an indirect style of communication. Words such as “perhaps" and “maybe" are used much more frequently than “yes", “no" or “for sure".
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American culture is not very formal, so it is appropriate to say “you" to your boss, to the President, to a stranger, to your spouse or to your child.
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In Thai language there are twelve forms of the pronoun “you", which depend of factors such as status or level of intimacy.
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Japanese pay a lot of attention to someone’s status and they use linguistic forms called honorifics, which are used according to the rank of the person who is speaking
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Many people don’t realize that there are plenty of words that cannot be translated from one language to another simply because they don’t exist in another language.
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The word “shopping", which describes one of the most favorite activities of Americans, doesn’t exist in some other languages (such as for example in Russian) as a noun.
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a person who is ready to forgive any transgression a first and a second time, but never for a third time.
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Since the United States and most of the English-speaking Western Europe are becoming less and less male-dominant cultures, the grammar rules have been changed and new gender agreement rules were created.
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Fifty years ago nobody was suspecting that one day in the United States the words “mother" and “father" would become controversial and that some schools would agree to change them both to “parent".