Document Type : Original Article
Abstract
Anthropology, the science of human studying and examining, studies the cultural knowledge, values, identity, beliefs, culture, language, natural phenomena and environmental changes of human. One of the functions of anthropology is to describe vivid events as well as material and spiritual phenomena. Human, firstly used language to describe issues and phenomena, and then described it by reason and mind for abstract ideas. Whatever observed formally and interpreted is language-based and transferred through generations. Hence, cultural development and its relationship with language has always existed and will. Linguistics is a subcategory of cultural anthropology. Therefore, is could be said that the close relationship between language and anthropology is the association of two science combined together to complement each other. Nevertheless, we are talking about one culture when talking about one language. Language, consequently the cultural window of the heart as culture transfers through a symbolic communication system named language. To provide answers for questions about humanity, anthropology studies the intracultural process, general public, people's general knowledge or folklore, customs, traditions and beliefs of a nation through those studies, legends and myths. The issue can be studied by establishing the relationship between anthropology and its viewpoint to language and culture of general public which is what follows. The article mainly aims to analyze these approaches descriptively for anthropological studies and to find the language share in culture.
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