LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF REALITY INTO TEXTS
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF REALITY INTO TEXTS

Summary/Abstract: The dynamics of reality impose the dynamics of language and culture, just as language and culture, both individual, but in relation of interdependence with the cultural and linguistic context, change the perception of reality. The entire structure depends on the spoken language, because only this real language can fulfill the purpose of mirroring the entire cultural construct through which the reference to reality is achieved. The transition from the spoken language to its sedimentation in texts, later in written texts, implies a fixation in a form that cannot be changed, so that the text becomes the bearer of a frozen linguistic form, a synchronous manifestation that reveals, as a consequence , a certain cultural context, and not another, a certain perception of reality, not another. It is not to be understood from here that the image of reality reflected in texts is reality itself, because reality manifests diachronicly, in direct relation with a certain cultural context, and is revealed, as far as possible, by the real language, spoken, therefore subjected equally to the innovative and conservative tendencies. If, therefore, speaking always refers to certain circumstances in a particular case placed in a concrete space and time, texts, particularly those written and especially those of literature, relate to a context different from reality, a universe of the discourse that is, however, through the language used, tributary to the concrete reality. The text thus becomes a representation of reality, but not as something that can happen, but in the sense of something that is likely to happen. Reality is not copied and translated ad litteram into texts, but is perceived through the senses, filtered through thought and recreated, through language, into different texts and contexts.

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