Language and Culture

Language and Culture

1. Continents

   • Contries
     • Culture
       • CULTURE IS A VERB. Street (1993b: 25, emphasis in the original)
         • Value Systems and Habits
         • Organizations
           • Family
           • Religion
           • Social Levels
           • Among others
         • Conflict
           • Interpersonal
           • Intrapersonal
         • Ecology and technology
         • Individuals
           • Intra-personal variation
         • Cross-cultural knowledge
     • Langauge
       • When learning a Language
         • The goal of learning is to decentre learners from their own culture-based assumptions and to develop an intercultural identity as a result of an engagement with an additional culture. Here the borders between self and other are explored, problematised and redrawn.
     • Society
       • Culture
       • Every society orchestrates the ways in which children participate in particular situations, and this, in turn, affects the form, the function and the content of children’s utterances; caregivers’ primary concern is not with grammatical input, but with the 5. transmission of sociocultural knowledge; 6. the native learner, in addition to language, acquires also the 7. paralinguistic patterns and the kinesics of his or her culture.
       • Creates Utterances. Local specific linguistic resources
         • Single voiced Uterances
           • Expressions which are too strong to be changed
         • Double voiced Utterances.
           • Passive
             • Speakes uses the word's conventional meaning
           • Active
             • Speaker gives meaning