CULTURAL CONTINUITY THROUGH NAMES AND ATTRIBUTES: A BRIEF THEORETICAL APPROACH
CULTURAL CONTINUITY THROUGH NAMES AND ATTRIBUTES: A BRIEF THEORETICAL APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: As language and culture are in a relationship of interdependence and language can not function outside the cultural context than as an abstract language, the dynamics of the language displayed in texts becomes equally a dynamic of culture, because, just like the part determines the specificity of the whole, being not different from it, the whole shapes and remodels component parts in the sense of its own characteristics. If language is perceived diachronically in its dynamics, and must be perceived as such, culture must also be given the attribute of dynamics in the diachronic, because language and culture are reciprocal tributes, the first finding in culture the context of manifestation and the latter manifesting in the culture, mostly through language. Moreover, as in language is manifested the tension that generates the selection and change between tradition and innovation, tension predominantly directed towards a still ever-relative equilibrium, so the culture is in a permanent pendulum between what has manifested, manifests itself creatively and will manifest. From this point of view, the diachronic perspective on cultural existence is as natural as the diachronic perspective on the existence of the language, the two intersecting, overlapping, sometimes substituting each other, influencing each other and forming, together, the spiral of the DNA of the spiritual existence of humanity from its beginnings.

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