LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 6 June 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Aspects of Telugu Culture

D. Vijayalakshmi, Ph.D.

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Understanding culture is multifarious in nature while at the same time extremely indispensable to our basic comprehension of life. Do we understand culture in its true sense or are we interpreting only from the colours of certain sects and creeds? Where do we need to start our beginnings of understanding culture - at individual or family or group or regional level? This paper is an articulation of my thought process on what should we focus when researching Telugu Culture so as to understand native Telugu culture in the midst of whirling myriad global changes.

The Word Culture

The word culture encompasses the common lifestyle of a given group of people. We find cultural differences among every linguistic group. For instance, we can distinguish the differences quite clearly among the Telugu speaking population. Caste, profession, region, economic status, educational background, life style, etc., form the basis for the formation of, or appearance of differences. In spite of all these variations, it is the language and culture that help group the various divisions or categories of people under one banner called the Telugu Culture.

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D. Vijayalakshmi, M.A. (Telugu), M.A. (Linguistics), Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Telugu
School of Humanities
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad 500 046
Andhra Pradesh
India
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