Language and Culture: Links and Mutual Influences in the Context of Folklore

This article examines the nexus between language, culture, and literature in the context of folklore, and shows how folk narratives can serve as a foundation for moral evolution and the design of participatory institutions. Assuming that literature underlies social structures and language is the agent of their evolution, the article argues that folklore is not only a foundation for the formation of culture, but also a foundation for moral and social engineering. Within the semantic chaos of folk literature lies a hidden order that stems from its endogenous morality; a morality that is based on the twin foundations of collective function and individual benefit and that is crystallized from the heart of participatory wisdom and lived experiences. The theory of Nexocracy, introduced earlier, is developed in this article in the context of folklore and reinterpreted as a framework for cultural analysis and design. Language, as a proxy agent, in interaction with the cultural structure, creates nexus links that organize a cooperative ethic in the form of a stable network. The research method is a conceptual-theoretical analysis that, using triangular frameworks (literature, identity, culture) and Nexocracy theory, reinterprets the role of language in cultural evolution.

Keywords:

Popular literature , Participatory ethics , Culture , Nexocracy , Folklore , Language , Political literature