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31.ExploringtheLinkbetweenLanguageandCulture800字Therelationshipbetweenlanguageandcultureisacomplexonewitheachinfluencingtheotherinavarietyofways.Languageisnotonlyusedtocommunicateideasandfeelingsbutalsoasawayofexpressingculturalidentityandtransmittingculturefromonegenerationtothenext.Similarlyculturalvaluesandnormscanbeseeninthewordsphrasesandgrammarusedtoexpressmeaningindifferentlanguages.Tobetterunderstandthisrelationshipitisimportanttoconsiderhowlanguageandcultureareintertwinedandmutuallyinfluential.Firstlanguageshapesandreflectsthecultureofitsspeakers.Wordsphrasesandgrammararealltoolsusedtoconveymeaningbuttheexactinterpretationofthesetoolsmaydifferbetweenlanguagesandcultures.ForexampleEnglishspeakersmayusethephraseyourewelcomewhileSpanishspeakerssay“denada\Eachphraseconveysthesamemessageofappreciationbutthewordsusedarebasedonthecultureofthespeaker.Likewisethegrammarrulesfollowedbyalanguagewillalsoreflectthecultureofthepeoplewhospeakit.Thisiswhytwodifferentlanguagescanhavesimilarsentencestructuresandgrammarrulesyetstillbeinterpreteddifferentlyduetoculturalnuances.Inadditioncultureinfluenceslanguagebyprovidingcontextforcertainwordsphrasesorexpressions.Aphrasesuchasthebirdsandthebees“canhaveverydifferentmeaningswhenusedindifferentcontexts.InanEnglishspeakingcontextittypicallymeansalectureaboutsexualreproductionandassociatedtopics.Howeverinotherculturesitcouldmeansomethingcompletelydifferent.Thisiswhyitisimportantfortranslatorsandinterpreterstobeawareoftheculturalcontextofthelanguagetheyaretranslatinginordertoaccuratelyconveytheintendedmessage.Finallybothlanguageandcultureserveasasourceofidentityforthosethatspeakit.Justaslanguagecandefinecultureculturecanshapelanguage.Peoplewilloftenadoptwordsandexpressionsbasedontheircultureinordertoexpresstheiruniqueidentity.Thisiswhyevenwithinthesamelanguagedialectsandregionalaccentscanbesignificantlydifferent.Inconclusionwhilelanguageandculturearedistinctconceptstheyarealsodeeplyintertwined.Fromtheshapingoflanguagebyculturalvaluestothereinforcementofidentitythroughlanguagethelinkbetweenlanguageandcultureisapowerfulone.Thereforeitisimportantforindividualstobeawareoftheinfluencelanguageandculturehaveoneachotherinordertoeffectivelycommunicateinaglobalenvironment.。