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Which came first: Language or culture?
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| Language | 45% | 557 votes | Total: 1242 votes | |
| Culture | 55% | 685 votes |
Language
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Created on: September 27, 2008 Last Updated: March 27, 2009
Language and culture are closely linked to each other, and throughout history, they have grown in tandem;
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by Cyn Bagley
Created on: August 11, 2007 Last Updated: December 29, 2009
Which came first is interesting if you look at the evolutionary aspect of language and culture. The
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by Angel Sosa
Created on: October 23, 2010
Which one came first, Language or Culture? Does it take a culture to create the language, or does it
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Created on: August 04, 2009 Last Updated: August 21, 2009
Which came first, language or culture? The answer to this question must be found in the Creator's book
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by cyberborgz
Created on: April 01, 2009
Haven't it been for the language, culture would not have been given the importance to its requirement.
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Created on: August 02, 2008 Last Updated: May 22, 2012
All social beings need to communicate and use language, even if it's a very basic language.
Dogs
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Created on: August 24, 2007
Investigating the origins of language and culture is quite a challenge due to miniscule amount of evidence
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Created on: August 28, 2007
Without language would culture exist? Possibly, but to have culture, you must have some way of communicating
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Created on: August 13, 2007
Language and culture intertwines and it is not possible to accurately say which comes first, but Language
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Created on: September 06, 2007
As a journalist I am all too aware of the importance of language. Without language, whether it be spoken,
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Created on: October 10, 2008
Language came first, for obvious reasons. For one, it is instinctive for both humans and the lower animals
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Created on: August 25, 2007
Without the ability to communicate with each other there is no progress in daily life or anything else
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Created on: September 24, 2007
Which came first: language or culture
Culture must have come before language. Culture encompasses a
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Created on: November 24, 2007
Which came first language or culture? At first glance it seems like it might be a complex question.
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Created on: August 13, 2007
What is a language?
A language is the ability to use sign or speech as a medium of communication between
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Created on: October 27, 2007
There is not a distinction between language and culture,
as cultural behaviour will manifest itself in -
by L. Merlino
Created on: August 25, 2007
Not all language is spoken. There is body language, including hand gestures (think Italian!), ASL (American
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Culture
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Created on: February 28, 2009 Last Updated: March 13, 2009
Debating which came first, language or culture, is much like debating whether the chicken or the egg
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Created on: April 18, 2009 Last Updated: April 19, 2009
If we are to enter a room full of strangers, we seek a position in the room that brings comfort. Sometimes
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by Adam Maus
Created on: August 24, 2007
Without even considering humans whom most people would associate culture with, there are other animals
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by A.W. Berry
Created on: August 14, 2007
Culture is clearly the predecessor to language as illustrated by the following definition. "The system
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by Dylan Gilman
Created on: March 12, 2009
It's the old 'which came first, the chicken or the egg' question, isn't it? Absolutely not. Culture
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Created on: April 02, 2009
Culture came first. Let me explain...
There are two ways of looking at this question. You can ask if
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Created on: October 17, 2007
The Snake Who Changed Culture
Language is a means of communicating in a cultural environment. Culture
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Created on: August 24, 2007
The debate regarding whether language or culture is primary in the sequence of human experience has
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Created on: December 06, 2008
The question, "which came first, language or culture" assumes there is a meaningful division between
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by John Brown
Created on: September 01, 2010
This question sounds rather weird, in order to answer this question properly, we need to define each
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Created on: August 24, 2007
The reason I come down on the side of Culture is based on what I think is good common sense. Lets go
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Created on: February 29, 2008
I must admit that I am surprised to see the (hopefully premature) results of this intelligent debate,
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Created on: October 25, 2008
Language is the use we make of sounds to name things and express ideas. Over time and with the movement
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by Elexis Marie
Created on: August 12, 2007
This area of linguistics is a touchy subject. Really, how can we know the origins of language? With
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by Roger Rudder
Created on: October 04, 2007
I voted culture came before language because if we looked at animal life before we can see distinct
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by G E Barr
Created on: July 03, 2008
Culture came first because food and water are absolutely necessary to human existance. When I awake
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by Jonte Rhodes
Created on: August 25, 2007
In my opinion culture came before language, just in a more basic and uncomlpex form. Language of course
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Created on: January 08, 2008
To understand the relationship between language and culture It's not necessary to visit the dawn of
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Created on: August 12, 2007
What is culture? Well according to the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, it is the "Integrated pattern
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