Language and CultureOUP Oxford, 20 aug 1998 - 134 pagina's Recent social and political changes have focused attention on the debate about the relationship between language and culture. This book offers an accessible survey of key concepts such as social context and cultural authenticity, using insights from fields which include linguistics, sociology and anthropology. |
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The relationship of language and culture | 3 |
Meaning as sign | 15 |
Meaning as action | 25 |
Spoken language oral culture | 37 |
Print language literate culture | 53 |
Language and cultural identity | 65 |
Current issues | 79 |
SECTION 2 | 85 |
SECTION 3 | 115 |
SECTION 4 | 125 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
action Acts of Identity American ANNA WIERZBICKA argument associated behavior Benjamin Lee Whorf BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI Cambridge University Press code-switching concept contextualization cues conversational style cultural identity Deborah DEBORAH TANNEN define deixis denote different cultures discourse community Edward Sapir Emily Dickinson encoded Erving Goffman ethnic example experience expressed facework frame French gender genre GEORGE LAKOFF German grammar Gumperz human iconic imagination individual interaction interlocutors international language interpretation language and culture language crossing language users linguicism linguistic imperialism linguistic relativity linguistic sign linked literacy event literate metaphor multicultural native speaker nature object oral participants permission to reproduce person political pragmatic coherence readers reality refer relation reproduce an extract roles rose Sapir-Whorf hypothesis semantic cohesion sense signifier social group society speak spoken spread of English story structure symbolic talk Tannen teacher Trobriand Islanders understand utterance verbal exchanges Whorf words writing written language