LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:6 June 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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The Importance of Language is the Expression of Culture

Dr. R. Raja

Culture: State of Inwardness

Culture is the state of inwardness concerned with the attainment of higher ideals like simple living and high thinking. It is impossible to study the English Language by dissociating it from the culture from which it grew. Only when a culture grows and displays a fine state of living, in that atmosphere of idealism and nobility a language grows.

Indispensability of Language to Express Culture

A culture grows when it manifests a disposition to enable one to live better. Language is a primary channel through which cultural concepts, ideas and practices are floated. Mere ideas exist in a vacuum if there is no language to express. It is here the indispensability of language comes in the expression of culture. No culture can be expressed without the instrument of language.

Finer Culture, Finer Language

In fact, there is a connection between life, literature, and language. Finer life shows finer culture to express a finer culture a finer language is required. The language must be equally suitable for the expression of noble ideas. Expression of life is closely associated with expression of language. A cultural experience to be valued must be expressed in a noble medium of language.

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