There is no human language without socio-cultural context; meanwhile language resides in the mind of every individual and as a result linguistic interaction did not occur without the use of language. Individuals do not create languages; they simply use the one given to them by the company. For Saeed (2009), language is the mirror of culture and is determined by the categories available in the speakers' language. Studies on the relationships between language and culture and between language and thought have a long history and have posed a highly appreciated proposal to modern linguistics: the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. This hypothesis emphasizes that the influence of language on thinking is only one component of such a complex network between language, culture and cognition. However, it essentially leaves out the cultural model. Without language, a certain level of cultural development and cultural knowledge cannot exist, and on the other hand, a high level of linguistic development could only exist through socio-cultural interaction. According to Flyht (2007), it is extremely evident that language reinforces cultural patterns through semantics while new meanings of new words are established by events that happen in people's lives based on their cultural occurrence. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the connection between linguistic determinism and the support of semantic studies to understand the words and sentences produced in the human mind when cultural and social model is taken into account. Yet “the knowledge that an individual who speaks a language possesses and which makes communication between them possible”. (Riemer, 2010: 13). Semantics is a theory of languages, natural or artificial, and is part of the gra...... middle of paper ......theory of noun universals not only with regard to phonetic universals but also from fixed categories (noun, verb, etc.), which constitute the underlying syntactic structure of the language. The words and grammatical structures of a language have a profound effect on the way speakers think, even when they are not speaking or listening. The essence of thought is real words and sentences, so people don't have to conceive a concept that doesn't exist in their language. Furthermore, if two people speak languages that differ in the concepts they are able to express, their beliefs are irreconcilable and communication between them is impossible. Semantics proposes that the meanings of words are mentally represented in the form of expressions. The meanings of words can vary from one language to another because children adapt and organize them starting from the most basic concepts.
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