Language and cultural identity - created from Mind Map

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Choice of language identity

discourse style

STEREOTYPES

Pragmactics communication

The language people choose to speak can be an effective way of maintaining a sense of group identity and of marking boundaries between one ethnic group and another

multilingual societies

footing

code-switch.

describes the stance we adopt vis a- vis others in conversation

context formal or informal

wait for the speaker to finish before asking another question

formal

informal

typified by interruptions, overlaps, and paralinguistic features

the attribution of negative characteristics

Stereotypes do serve a purpose

y allow human beings to generalise about themselves and the others they meet in order to operate more efficiently

communication, cultural value systems, particularly in the relation to face vary considerably from one community to the other

negative and positive face

refers to the strategies to main face in any social exchange

mutual understanding

narrow categorisers

using their own cultural categories and values,

broad categorisers

willing to accept that behaviour

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