The Relationship between Language and Culture: a Sociolinguistic Perspective

Keywords

culture; language; social relity; system

Abstract

this study seeks to understand and describe the relationship between language and culture in a sociolinguistic perspective. Bearing in mind that this study is an exploration based-perspective, the framework is underlied by several factors, beyond the language itself. This has something to do with society. Social reality is an important instrument to comprehend the residing meaning. By this perspective, theory that describes the relationship between culture and language is divided into two categories, namely subordinate relations and coordinate relationship theory. The first relationship correlates with the view that culture is the main system while language is a subsystem. The second type of relationship or coordinative relationship is based on the understanding that language and culture are two different systems, which are used by humans. In this case, the writer wants to realize the challenge of culture as a system that has power over human interaction, while language is a system with its function as a means of carrying continuity from that interaction.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Widhiya Ninsiana
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - The Relationship between Language and Culture: a Sociolinguistic Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 326
EP  - 330
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906105
ID  - Ninsiana2018/11
ER  -