What Do We Mean by Difference in Language and Culture?
Abstract: The discussions about the relations between different languages and different cultures tend to accept the concept difference as certainty. I will argue for all the presumptive assuredness of the concept, it cannot be easily accounted for theoretically and the difficulty has been aggravated by the identity politics. I will demonstrate although there is no definitive evidence for the claim that language dictates culture or vice versa, concepts that are to be expressed in specific languages are subject to the Procrustean operation of the semantic networks of the respective languages since the reality and the experiences are codified in specific languages and we think intersubjectively ...
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