The Relationship Between Language And Culture

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1. What is the relationship of language and culture?
• According to Edward Sapir (1921) cited by David Elmes (2013), there is an adjacent connection between language and culture in which one cannot likely to understand or appreciate without having the awareness of the other. Furthermore, Emma (2010) says that language can be noticed as a verbal manifestation of culture wherein it maintains the culture ties and expresses the culture of a specific community. Aubrey Neil Leveridge (2008) agreed to this idea wherein different stem of notions from different language use within one’s culture and the whole entwining of these interactions start at one’s birth. Our thinking is inclined with the language that we used same as true with the culture that flows in our blood. Whereas, the values, norms, and traditions in the country that we have grown up affect the way we think and how we perceive the language. On the other hand, when we talked about language and
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