It has been established that language plays an integral role in the transmission ofculture (Goodenough, 1981; Hamers, 2004; Kramsch, 1998; Romaine, 2000). Languageexpresses, symbolizes, and embodies cultural reality (Kramsch, 1998). Communicativetools are established by groups or cultures according to their ways of viewing the world.Hamers (2004) states that humans have universal communicative and cognitive functions but have culturally specific ways of communicating them linguistically. According to Hamers (2004) “In contrast to the stability of the communicative and cognitive functions, the particular surface forms that are used to encode these functions vary greatly across languages” (p.71).
đang được dịch, vui lòng đợi..
