Culture-Language binomial in intercultural communication

• Author: Holta Heba
• Position: European University of Tirana
• Pages: 70-77

Vol. 3 No. 3

November 2017

Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

ISSN 2410-3918

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Culture-Language binomial in intercultural communication

Dr. Holta Heba

European University of Tirana

Abstract

In Intercultural Communication, identities cannot be understood without knowing and

understanding linguistic and cultural elements and social context. These elements are really

important and create that is called “identity”. Language cannot be divided by culture and

national identity, as it is created and still lives together with it.

The aim of the study: In Intercultural Communication, an identity is being understood by

its language and culture and its social context. Both these elements are indivisible factors in

understanding a certain identity and are put in service of intercultural communication realized

by semantics aspect.

Culture and language are two elements that coexist since the human existence. The culture of

the identity needs to be proved in order to survive and the evidence is accomplished through

language.

The research question: How does the language and culture cooperate in intercultural

communication?

Language and culture are established and developed at the same time with the development

of self-identity. In intercultural communication, they cannot be understood apart from one

another and separated from the social context.

Keywords: Culture, Language, social context, interpretation, communication, identity.

Introduction

Traditional customs and culture can be expressed through wri en and spoken

language. It is closely related to the political, economic, historical and social

organization of a certain nationality and its social context. It leads the history of the

nation. It remains an important tool of cultural and intercultural communication and

has always been in the service of identities development. A concept or phenomenon

of a particular society has been created, developed and transmi ed only through

language. A concept or phenomenon has been labeled and survived in the relevant

society through the act of speaking and writing. Also, the creation, beginning or

ending of a history of a certain identity is transmi ed from one generation to another

through the act of writing or speaking, so through language. The language itself

identifi es the representative element of an identity. Di erent identities have di erent

languages. Di erent concepts and phenomena are named di erently in di erent

countries. Language has always been and remains an indispensable mediator in

the recognition and communication between many identities that have di erent

histories, traditions, customs, and beliefs. The importance of the "language” is related

to the fact that an identity di erent from ours becomes known and understandable

only through the act of speaking and writing. All images, images, landscapes, and

all "language of gestures" in the context of a particular culture need to rely on the