用英语介绍下文化与语言的关系

Language in all human activity plays a very important role in human society, is an indispensable part of life. However, the human language phenomenon and so mysterious, is the humanity has not yet been fully understand things. Since ancient times, linguists have all trying to from various perspectives language are discussed, formed many linguistics. To sum up, the modern linguistics mainly comes from these two traditional: philology tradition and anthropology tradition. Must the linguistics as a foreign social science, put language in the social and cultural environment of research. Human linguistic research induce a traditional cultural linguistics appear and rise. Through from the cultural perspective of language communication process and linguists have found that people in language communication process involves not only language system, but also related with language systems and is closely related to the survival of cultural system.
In linguistic and cultural research has two kinds of formulation: "the language and culture" and "culture in language". In order to define language and other cultural phenomenon relationship, some linguists will culture is divided into two main categories, "big culture" and "small culture" (who, 1976).
Language is a special cultural component parts. It in the status of overall culture is special, and overall culture in other components (namely) little relation to culture are counterparts. So you can think language is a social phenomenon, is human communication tools, but also makes person and cultural fusion of medium. It along with the human form and form, also with the development of human society and the development and changes.
Since the childhood cultural perspective, language and culture is synchronous happen, no language is no culture. Language is the premise of cultural formation and development, cultural development also promoted the development of the language is rich. There is a language, humanity will have a culture. Language is human differences and animal's important symbol. The human language is human society culture in language, it with human society, human culture has many close relationship.