Language and Intercultural Communication

Culture is defined as the body of knowledge and behavior that characterizes a human society, or more generally a human group within a society. Language is probably the best way of conveying a culture, both oral and written, in human societies. Language, written or oral, plays an essential role in the development of a form of social knowledge, such as common-sense thought, socially developed and shared by members of the same social or cultural characteristics. This common knowledge is sometimes called social representation. Through language, we assimilate culture, perpetuate it, or transform it. Nevertheless, like every language, each culture implements a specific apparatus of symbols with which each society…