DIFFERENT LEVELS OF COMPARISONS IN CULTURE AND LANGUAGE

2.  Culture is defined as the knowledge, belief,
art, morals, law, custom and any other
capabilities and habits acquired by man as a
member of society.
 It is also definied as a social domain that
emphasizes the practices, discourses and
material expressions, which, over time,
express the continuities and discontinuities of
social meaning of a life held in common.

3. Language is the ability to acquire and use
complex systems of communication,
particularly the human ability to do so, and a
language is any specific example of such a
system.

4.  Language is the verbal expression of culture.
 Culture is the idea, custom and beliefs of a
community with a distinct language
containing semantics-everything a speakers
can think about and every way they have of
thinking about things as medium of
communication.

5.  Language and culture are NOT
fundamentally inseparable.
 At the most basic level, language is a method
of expressing ideas.

6.  Language is communication; while usually
verbal, language can also be visual(via signs
and symbols), or semiotics(via hand or body
gestures).
 Culture on other hand is a specific set of
ideas, practices, customs and beliefs which
make up a functioning society as distinct.

7.  A culture must have at least one language,
which it uses as a distinct medium of
communication to convey its defining ideas,
practices, customs and beliefs from one
member of culture to another member.

8.  Language is heavily influenced by culture- as
culture comes up with new ideas, they
develop language components to express
those ideas.