Interaction between language and culture

The knowledge and beliefs that constitute a people’s culture are habitually encoded and transmitted in language. Language is as a collector of culture and through language, human beings:

• Generate collective meanings, actions, thoughts, feelings, social organization.

• Record, store, and disseminate that knowledge across time, across space, between people.

• Express information, ideas, emotions, attitudes.

• Language is an endlessly creative vehicle for self-expression, group expression, and entertainment.