Language and Culture

ADASKOU Senses of Culture

Aesthetic Sense

Artistic Production

Speech Communities

Share Linguistic Code or Language

Sociological Sense

Aspects of Life setup

Discourse and Accent Communities

Semantic Sense

Conceptual System Express in a Language

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis or Linguistic Relativity

Language influence speakers

Pragmatic Sense

Paralinguistic Skills and Contextual Knowledge

Use Appropiately

Intonation Patterns

Communicative Functions

Norms of Politeness

Rhetorical Conventions and Usage Genres

CLARKE "Three raw categories"

Culture as content, High Culture and Cultural Practice or Behaviour

HOFSTEDE Attitudes to Work

Power Distance

MEAD added: Degree of equality desire by members of a Culture.

Uncertainty Avoidance

MEAD added: Avoidance uncertainty about situations and future.

Individualism versus Collectivism

MEAD added: Stress individual achivement and rights. Competition is expected.

Masculinity versus Feminity

MEAD added: Masculine culture sex roles are sharply separate. Feminine culture are the opposite.

Limitations of HOFSTEDE framework

Cultura can´t have a pattern.

Issues of social class are not consider.

Men´s and Women´s cultures might be different

International Youth culture not consider

HOLLIDAY

Cultural methodology, otherisation

CLIFFORD GEERTZ

Semiotic View of Culture

Study of signs and symbols

Ritual behaviour