Applied Cultural Linguistics

Culture is a part of language because the language that has grown with a community has also to some extent been molded to the task of expressing that community's culture. As a result, cultural concepts are embedded in language, and the architecture of each language contains culturally specific features. These include both lexical and grammatical characteristics. The lexical characteristics are often the most obvious and tend to attract more attention.

Here, for example we can cite nomenclature systems relating to specific economical niches, such as the multitude of names used in some Siberian languages to reference reindeer according to their age, sex, level of  domestication, breeding status, etc. Harrison 2006. Other salient examples are lexemes that exist in one language, but require lengthy explanations in another. For example, Czech has the verb misat, which is extremely difficult to translate into English because English lacks a single word to describe eating something particularly delicious, not because one is hungry, but just because it is enjoyable.