Language and Culture

An understanding of the relationship between language and culture is important for language learners, users, and for all those involved in language education. This paper begins by introducing the concepts of language and culture, and then considers the connection that exists between them. Actually the relationship between language and culture is a complex one due largely in part to the great difficulty in understanding people s cognitive processes when they communicate. In composing a definition for culture, we can see that the concept is often better understood in the context of how the members of a culture operate, both individually and as a group. It is therefore clear how important it is for members of any society to understand the actual power of their words and actions when they interact. By reviewing all the functions that exist between the relationship of language and culture many questions could be raised which with answering to these questions in some extent would discover the relationship. These functions are related to many factors like as some issues that prove some causes of making relations which inherently exist between language and culture and some other issues which prove this relationship is faded according to ideas of some scholars. This research has been tried to point of different ideas in this regard and orientations that come from them.

Keywords:

Language , Culture , functions of language