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Sifat Faria Trisha
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Professor Joshua Yu Burnett
10th December 2014

The Relationship between Language and Culture Research: Annotated Bibliography

Bührig, Kristin, and Jan D. Ten. Thije.Beyond Misunderstanding: Linguistic Analyses of Intercultural Communication.Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 2006. Print. This book has implicitcon jectures regarding cultural communication. Misunderstandings can take place in communication while it is done in an intercultural way. But intercultural communication can be analyzed beyond misunderstanding. Cultural misunderstanding is not always the only outcome of the interpretation of different languages. Intercultural communication can also help in understanding the culture of the people of the …show more content…

Purohitan, Himachal H F P "What Is the Relationship between Language and Culture?" Answers. Answers Corporation. Web. 9 Dec. 2014.
This book shows that Language and culture are related. Languages borrow words from different culture. Language is used to convey customs and norms of one culture to the people. In this book, Sociologists and anthropologists work with languages by using the similarities of culture. We can see that one language can be developed separately without its root culture by incorporating with other cultures. By using this book, an idea can be used that culture can influence and add, deduct certain amount of rules and words as they can grow by the grace of other cultures apart from its own culture.
This text has shown me that if anyone knows about some of the related cultures and he/she does not about the root culture even though he/she will be able find out the nature of the language.
Sharifian, Farzad. Cultural Conceptualisations and Language Theoretical Framework and Applications.Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub., 2011. …show more content…

It talks about culture first shapes up the language of a people. It gives different examples regarding this such as the examples of the concepts of aboriginal languages. This article shows the language should be looked at from a perception that culture teaches us the concepts such as space, or time, or place, or colorto express it through languages. All of these show that language that shapes culture and not the other way around.
It helped me to determine the start point of my research as I looked at the cultural concepts first then its influence on languages.
"The Relationship Between Language & Culture and the Implications for Language Teaching." Teflnet RSS. Aubrey Neil Leveridge. Web. 10 Dec. 2014. <http://edition.tefl.net/articles/teacher-technique/language-culture/>.
This text says that the relationship between language and culture is very strong. Language works in maintaining the way of conveying culture and cultural ties. With the rise of different ideas, language gets enriched and gets used within the culture of one. In this article, the role of culture in child language acquisition is shown, how culture shapes up the languages in a child’s mind, how it gets developed through the development of the concepts. So, by using this article I can have the idea of the influence of culture in child language

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