Review of Language, Culture, and Society

Authors : Mehmet BİRGÜN

Pages : 277-280

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Publication Date : 2013-10-23

Article Type : Conference Paper

Abstract :Language, Culture, and Society can be regarded as a handbook for sociolinguistics  edited by Christine Jourdan and Kevin Tuite. The book has 11 chapters each written by  different authors and takes a general look at the language issues in terms of studies in the  social and cultural foundations of language. Furthermore, it brings information related to  language based on society, culture and language discussing a range of major questions: How  does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge?  The first chapter which is ‘An issue about language’ belongs to Charles Taylor. He  begins by asking some questions asked for centuries to evoke some knowledge about the issue  of language. To understand the nature of the language, he presents two theories which are  enframing theory and constitutive theory. In this respect, concrete illustrations are given over  the explanations of the theories above on the basis of the relationship between signs and  words when they have meaning. Furthermore, the wordless world of the animals in front of a  sign and the human beings’ ability to say something in front of an inarticulate action are  compared without making any simulations between. In addition to that, the difference between responding appropriately to features of a specific situation and the features are  illustrated while expressing that the animals’ response to features of one specific signal does  not involve any definitions.
Keywords : Language, Culture, Society