Abstract
Cultural diversity doesn’t just entail differences in dress and language. It also encompasses different ways of thinking, managing, and communicating. The relationship between communication and culture is a very complex and intimate one. Cultures are created through communication; that is, communication is the means of human interaction through which cultural characteristics are created and shared. People use language for purposeful communication and learning a new language involves learning how to use words, rules and knowledge about language and its use in order to communicate with speakers of the language. In this paper, the first section attempts to illustrate communications and culture transformation; the second section focuses on the ways in which people’s world-views affect languages’ learning, understanding, and interaction; the third section discusses the diverse cultural stratifications between eastern and western cultures’ values.
Highlights
Culture is a word with many shades of meaning
Cultures are created through communication; that is, communication is the means of human interaction through which cultural characteristics are created and shared
People use language for purposeful communication and learning a new language involves learning how to use words, rules and knowledge about language and its use in order to communicate with speakers of the language
Summary
Culture is a word with many shades of meaning. It is defined in Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics as the total set of beliefs, attitudes, customs, behavior, social habits, etc. of the members of a particular society. Culture is a word with many shades of meaning It is defined in Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics as the total set of beliefs, attitudes, customs, behavior, social habits, etc. Symbolic anthropology is considered to be one of such transformations regarding the theoretical interpretation cultural anthropologists are concerned with This would suggest that culture and language are inseparable by nature if one were to take into account the notion that the meanings of a word are structured around cultural practice and are constrained to that culture. The culture of speaking may entail not speaking to particular people
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