Romance Hypotheses: Language and Society - Posing the argument "our definitions of language and culture are not independent: the definition of language involves in it a reference to culture"(1), Ronald Wardhaugh (1986)in his guide "An Introduction to Sociolonguistics" presents quadruple hypotheses proposed by different scholars concerned in "the analyze of the partnership concerning language and culture"(1) and "the many features of language in culture"(1) .The hypotheses are: •Society influences the linguistic phenomenon. •Linguistic phenomenon influences the culture •Society and language with each other dialectically influence the linguistic phenomenon. •Society and language do not influence the linguistic phenomenon at all. In accordance to Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe (2003) a culture is the "website of partnership and interactions amongst human beings" when a group of people today adhere with each other bearing in ...
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