martes, 1 de mayo de 2012

How does language reflect culture?


How does language reflect culture?

Communicative competence is the set of skills and knowledge a person must gain if they want to communicate with others in a constantly changing social environment. Communicative competence suggests that any meaning can only be understood in the context. One again, we realize that almost impossible to separate language from where, how, when, and why it is used. Through observation of people as they really speaks, and through the study of their cultural understandings, we can try to come to conclusion both about the nature and power of language and the ways humans develop it. 


Language, as a communicative act, is social. While meaning may be tied cultural context, culture itself is shaped through our language use.
The more closely we consider language, the more obvious is it that it has special qualities equivalent to, or as function of, its place in our lives.

Example that language accompany human group; They disappear with them; or, on the contrary, if those groups are large and quick and spread beyond their original environment, the language can be dispersed, in their wake, over vast territories. Thus, it is from those who speak them that they derive their life principles and their ability to increase their area of usage.
Nevertheless, language are also one of the essential sources of the vital force that animates human communities. More than any other properties defining what is human, language possess the power to provide individuals with the basis for their integration into society-that is, on a level different from ones biological framework and mental structure, meaning the very foundations of ones life.

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