Culture and Language Use

by Gunter Senft
Culture and Language Use
Author: Gunter Senft
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027207798
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The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this second volume reviews basic topics and traditions that place language use in its cultural context. As emphasized in the introduction, and as revealed in the choice of articles, culture is by no means to be seen as standing in opposition to society and cognition; on the contrary, the notion cannot be understood without insight into the intricate interactions of social and cognitive structures and processes. In addition to the topical articles, a number of contributions to this volume is devoted to aspects of methodology. Others highlight the role of eminent scholars who have made the study of cultural dimensions of language use into what it is today."

Language and Material Culture

by Allison Paige Burkette
Language and Material Culture
Author: Allison Paige Burkette
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027267944
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This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture, and a general introduction to the study of complex adaptive systems. Following this general introduction, the principles of complexity theory are demonstrated in data drawn from linguistics and material culture studies. Language and Material Culture further highlights the principles of complexity through a series of case studies, using data from the Linguistic Atlas, colonial American inventories and the Historic American Building Survey. LMC shows that language and material culture are intertwined as they interact within the same cultural complex system. The book is designed for students in courses that focus on language variation, American English and material culture, in addition to general courses on applications of complex systems.

Language and Culture

by Claire Kramsch
Language and Culture
Author: Claire Kramsch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1998-08-20
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194372145
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This work investigates the close relationship between language and culture. It explains key concepts such as social context and cultural authenticity, using insights from fields which includes linguistics, sociology, and anthropology.

Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

by Troy McConachy
Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use
Author: Troy McConachy
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783099348
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Many language teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning, but how this can be best achieved is not always apparent. This is particularly the case in foreign language learning contexts where teachers are working with a prescribed textbook and opportunities to use the language outside the classroom are limited. This book argues that teachers can work creatively with conventional resources and utilise classroom experiences in order to help learners interpret aspects of communication in insightful ways and develop awareness of the influence of cultural assumptions and values on language use. The book provides extensive analysis of a range of classroom interactions to demonstrate how teachers and learners can work together to construct opportunities for intercultural learning through reflection on pragmatics.

Culture and Foreign Language Education

by Wai Meng Chan
Culture and Foreign Language Education
Author: Wai Meng Chan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2015-07-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501503022
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The teaching of culture and interculturality is today viewed as an integral part of foreign language education. This book presents insights from recent research on the role of culture in second/foreign and heritage language education. It contains 14 chapters including an introductory chapter that discusses diachronically the evolving notion of culture and how the sociocultural view of culture as a complex and dynamic concept informs language teaching and language learning research. The chapters following the introduction are organised in four parts focusing on: 1) the teacher's role in integrated language and culture learning; 2) the interrelationship between culture, identity, and language learning and use; 3) the effect of culture on learner characteristics which impact language learning processes and outcomes; and 4) curriculum development aimed at fostering language and culture learning. The chapters in Parts 1 to 3 present contributions from current research - either in the form of the authors' original studies or comprehensive reviews of relevant essential research - which bears important implications for curricular practice in foreign language and language teacher education. This close link between research, theory and practice is also maintained in the two chapters in Part 4, which present developmental projects based on well-grounded theoretical frameworks.

Language, Culture, and Society

by James Stanlaw
Language, Culture, and Society
Author: James Stanlaw
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429974701
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Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This seventh edition carries on the legacy while addressing some of the newer pressing and exciting challenges of the 21st century, such as issues of language and power, language ideology, and linguistic diasporas. Chapters on gender, race, and class also examine how language helps create - and is created by - identity. New to this edition are enhanced and updated pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, updated resources for continued learning, and the inclusion of a glossary. There is also an expanded discussion of communication online and of social media outlets and how that universe is changing how we interact. The discussion on race and ethnicity has also been expanded to include Latin- and Asian-American English vernacular.

Language, Culture and Knowledge in Context

by Brian Nolan
Language, Culture and Knowledge in Context
Author: Brian Nolan
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022
Genre: Cognitive grammar
ISBN: 9781800501928
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What exactly is meant by the term 'knowledge'? What are the different kinds of knowledge? How might this be shared in a dialogue between two interlocutors, within a shared common ground, in the realization of successful speech acts? This volume investigates the nature of language, culture, knowledge, and context, and their interrelationships. Each of these is defined - in terms of their relationship to language in particular, and to identify their respective properties. Cultural and other knowledge is also found within the linguistic landscape and the artifacts within our environment. The book explores the ways that language is central to expressions of knowledge and culture. It draws a comprehensive and representative picture of the dimensions of meaning, emerging from the interrelationship between these domains of language, culture, knowledge, and context.

Language and Culture

by Karen Risager
Language and Culture
Author: Karen Risager
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853598585
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The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.

Language, Culture, and Society

by Christine Jourdan
Language, Culture, and Society
Author: Christine Jourdan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2006-05-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139452517
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Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives.