TRADITION – HOW TO TALK ABOUT IT, HOW TO PASS IT ON? THE FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE IN INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNICATION

Résumé

The article focuses on the principal roles and functions that a language performs in every community. The specificity of language in the process of communicating cultural contents has become a salient issue in the recent years, due to co-occurrence of linguistic communications with w broad range of cultural behaviours. Major questions discussed here include in the manner in which the subsequent generations find out about local traditions and how this knowledge will be cultivated and passed on. The article presents specific examples, which need not involve fossilized conditions of cultural transmission; on the contrary, they can and should inspire young generations to ‘acquire’ it.