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Language and culture are linked. If we take culture to be a set of beliefs and practices which govern the life of society, then language is, on one hand, a vehicle for the expression of those beliefs, for their transmission from generation to generation, and an instrument for finding out about the world. Being itself a social practice it is, on the other hand, a part of culture.
Those who may be alarmed about the spread of English, or of any other language, may be reassured that there is insufficient evidence for thinking that such a language has within itself, like a Trojan horse, a particular view of the world.
John B. Carroll (1963) ‘Linguistic Relativity, Contrastive Linguistics and Language Learning’, International Review of Applied Linguistics, 1, p. 19
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Hartley, A.F. (1982). Languages, Cultures, Contacts. In: Linguistics for Language Learners. Contemporary Language Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16859-0_7
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