LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Cultural Complexes – a cluster of interrelated traits. Culture Patterns – is the combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole.

Detailed explanation-2: -(ii) Culture traits : Culture traits are the individual acts and objects, which constitute the expression of a culture. (iii) Culture Complex : Culture complex an organisation or institution consists of more than one such cultural units or traits and the configuration of these simple units is called a ‘culture complex.

Detailed explanation-3: -a distinctive pattern of activities, beliefs, rites, and traditions associated with one central feature of life in a particular culture. An example is the cluster of activities, ceremonies, folklore, songs, and stories associated with the hunting and use of the buffalo by Native American peoples.

Detailed explanation-4: -Individual culture traits combine to form the next level-culture complexes. A culture complex is a cluster of interrelated traits.