LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (Jazyk a kultura)

• Authors: Dolnik Juraj
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The author of this paper presents the fundamental ideas of a research project that is directed at the topical questions of the relation between language and culture in the Slovak language milieu. He focuses the attention on four aspects of this relation. (1) Language as a medium of culture. The cardinal question is how works the language as a constituent of the cultural memory. (2) Language as a medium of the formation of culture. The central problem is the role of the language in the process of creation of the mental and social culture. (3) Language as a product of culture. This aspect concerns the nature of the language perceived as a cultural phenomenon. (4) Language as an object of cultivation. The question is what a culture of the cultivation of the standard language is adequate with regard to the current conditions of his using.

Keywords

EN

CULTIVATION OF LANGUAGE; CULTURAL MEMORY; LANGUAGE MILIEU; MEDIUM OF CULTURE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Ludovit Stur Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská reč (Slovak Language)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 257-267
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dolnik Juraj

• Juraj Dolnik, Jazykovedny ustav Ludovita Stura SAV, Panska 26, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA08669