The academic discipline studying how language and culture are interconnected, including how culture shapes language and vice versa.
From ethno- + linguistics. This interdisciplinary field emerged from both anthropology and linguistics, recognizing that languages cannot be studied in cultural isolation.
Ethnolinguistics explains why English speakers obsess over time ("time is money"), why some cultures have dozens of words for snow, and why insulting someone's family is universally inflammatory—culture literally shapes what our languages emphasize.
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