What is Culture | Relationship Between Language and Culture | Cultural Acquisition Through Language

Outline of the lecture:
1. Cultural Influences Language
2. What is Culture?
3. How do we acquire cultural knowledge?
4. Language Helps Us In Categorization
5. We identify only what is in our culture
CULTURE:
The customs and beliefs, art, way of life and social organization of a particular country or group. OR The beliefs and attitudes about something that people in a particular group or organization share. We use the term culture to refer to all the ideas and assumptions about the nature of things and people that we learn when we become members of social groups.
It can be defined as “socially acquired knowledge.” [Yule, G. (2017) The Study of Language (6th edition) Cambridge University Press & Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 9th edition]
We acquire cultural knowledge unconsciously just like our first language. But we develop awareness of our knowledge and culture just after we acquire our first language. The language which we acquire through cultural transmission provides us with a ready-made system of categorizing the world around us. With the acquisition of language we start categorizing things in our social world where we are living. Initially children having English as their first language say bow-wow for many creatures looking like dog but as they develop more elaborated concept the identify a dog, a cat, a horse, etc, as distinct entities. In native cultures of the Pacific, there were no horses and, not surprisingly, there were no words for them. In order to use words such as dog or horse, snow or snowflake, father or uncle, week or weekend, we must have a conceptual system that includes these people, things and ideas as distinct and identifiable categories.
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