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What is language?, other definitions of culture, Practices, What is…
What is language?
simple
"Signs that convey meaning"
(c) Kramsh
"An entirely human and non-intrisic method of communicating ideas, emotions and desire by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols"
(c) Sapir
complicated
summing up all the ideas
a system of verbal and non-verbal signs used to express meanings
other
definitions of culture
a way of life
ideas, customs, skills, arts, and tools which characterize a certain group of people in a given period of time
traditions
can be learned; also is relative and changeable in space and time
Practices
Patterns of social interactions
What is culture?
What consists culture?
1957
Goodenough's definition
of culture
whatever everybody has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members
to do so (operate and believe) in any role they accept for any of themselves
Perspectives
(meanings, attitudes, values, ideas)
Products
Books, tools, food, laws, music, games)
