Research into the Relationship between Language and Cultural Identity

Language and cultural identity affect and condition each other.Language is a window for people to look into cultural identity,a sensitive and important symbol for the individual and a certain culture group to belong to.Language plays an important role in identifying and maintaining cultural identity.Language is an indispensable part for individual self -awareness.Language permeates each individual thinking and the whole Weltanschauung.Cultural identity conditions language:differences of cultural identity constitute differences of the application of language.Meanwhile,there is not a simple one-to-one corresponding relationship between language and cultural identity.Identifying cultural identity in practice is rather sophisticated.Language is not the sole symbol for identifying cultural identity.