Language, Culture, & Society

LANGUAGE, CULTURE, & SOCIETY
By Philip Rustia
Language, a system of conventional spoken, manual, or written symbols by means of
which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express
themselves. The functions of language include communication, the expression of identity, play,
imaginative expression, and emotional release.
Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing
language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.
The Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisition goes a step further, defining culture
as shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are
learned by socialization. Thus, it can be seen as the growth of a group identity fostered by social
patterns unique to the group.
Society, a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about
how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in
several similar countries, can be referred to as a society
Relations between Language, Culture, & Society
language, culture and society have a correlation because language is an instrument or embodiment
of culture that used by human to communicate with each other, either through writing, oral, or
movement (sign language), with the aim of conveying the mind intent or willingness to others.
There may be many cultures in one society by language diversity; society is a number of people
who have a settled relationship and the same interest; culture is everything that is learned and
experienced socially by the members of a society, so the culture is not only the accumulation of
habits and code of conduct but a system organized behavior. Culture embraces all aspects and
terms in human life, be it a material or non-product material. There may be many cultures in one
society by language diversity.
Relationship between language and society. Language and society are two things meet at one
point, it means that between language and society will not be separated. Language as arbitrary
symbol system sound that used by members of the community as a means of communication,
interaction, and identify yourself. Language so firmly attached, fused soul in each speaker in the
community. The function of language as an instrument to do the interaction and communication
to convey thoughts, ideas, concepts or also feeling in society life. Type of relationship between
language and society is an association between certain forms of language, called the variation or
dialect diversity with the use of function in society. For examples, we use standard language in
education activity, we use non-standard language in non-formal activity, we use a literature
language in our art activity, and so on. Sociolinguistic examines the relationship between language
of society which relate two areas those we can study them separately, it is formal structure
language by linguistic and structure community by sociology.
Relationship between language and culture. Language is a part of the culture, so the relationship
between language and culture is subordinate relationship, which the languages are under the
cultural sphere. Language and culture are the two systems that attached in human life. If culture as
a system that regulates the human interaction in society, the language will be a system that serves
as a means of the interaction ongoing.
In conclusion, languages are closely in the life community, and they used by people to
communicate, whether they are in sign form, written, or oral. Then, contrary to human nature, they
cannot do society without languages. That might be said that human as same as animals if there is
no language in society, so there is a relationship between language and society. Because of that
relation, there is culture. It develops because of the public speaking/people speak to each other,
public thinking/people who think to create something that becomes values in society, that is
culture. So, society life cannot be separated from language system and culture system.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/language
https://www.livescience.com/21478-what-is-culture-definition-of-culture.html
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/society

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LANGUAGE, CULTURE, & SOCIETY

Language, a system of conventional spoken, manual, or written symbols by means of

imaginative expression, and emotional release.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing

language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

patterns unique to the group.

several similar countries, can be referred to as a society

Relations between Language, Culture, & Society

society by language diversity.

community. The function of language as an instrument to do the interaction and communication

education activity, we use non-standard language in non-formal activity, we use a literature

language by linguistic and structure community by sociology.

as a means of the interaction ongoing.

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