Valodas un kultūras attiecības

If we compare language with nature it is something true and unaffected, however culture is made with time. Thereby appears a question – are people what nature establishes them to be or what culture makes them to become? Actually there is a relationship between nature, culture and language. Nature alone cannot discover the beauty of language; culture helps to reveal its potential with the technology of the word, in that way making the language immortal. Culture also impacts socialization and acculturation by making cultural conventions and brings order and predictability into language.

It can be viewed from a historical (diachronic) perspective – the group’s members identify themselves with a help of historical dimensions (past, present and future). Together with the social (synchronic) layer they make sociocultural context of language study.

However, there are differences between oral and literate cultures. It makes speech communities – people who are members of a social group, have similar imagination and views on the world and language. The communities use the same linguistic code and make social norms which are influenced by the double effect of culture (liberating and constraining). But when a person uses language to meet its social needs, we can speak of discourse communities which share a discourse accent.