Culturally Speaking

Author : Gerry Philipsen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 079141163X

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Speaking Culturally by Gerry Philipsen Pdf

Speaking Culturally presents case studies of two cultures, focusing on how speaking is thematized and enacted in each. The Teamsterville culture is drawn from the author's studies of the spoken life of an urban, working-class neighborhood in Chicago, while the Nacirema culture draws upon studies of communication among middle-class Americans, primarily on the West Coast. Using fieldwork conducted over a period of twenty years, Philipsen shows how listening to a people's spoken life can reveal expressions of underlying codes--or social rhetorics--of what it means to be a person, how persons can and should be linked together in social relations, and how communication can and should be used in interpersonal conduct. From these studies of speaking in two cultures emerges an understanding of communication as an activity in which people not only draw from and express but also shape and fashion their understandings of self, society, and strategic action.

Author : Helen Spencer-Oatey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0826466362

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Culturally Speaking by Helen Spencer-Oatey Pdf

Using the theory of "politeness" as a springboard, Culturally Speaking develops a new framework for analyzing interactions. The book examines both comparative and interactive aspects of cross-cultural communication through a variety of disciplines, theories, and empirical data. Anyone interested in exploring intercultural communication will find this volume lucid and insightful.

Author : Amanda Nell Edgar
Publisher : Intersectional Rhetorics
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814214061

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Culturally Speaking by Amanda Nell Edgar Pdf

Examines racial and gendered dimensions of voice in American culture, showing how vocal sound helps to shape cultural power dynamics.

Author : Helen Spencer-Oatey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441189400

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Culturally Speaking Second Edition by Helen Spencer-Oatey Pdf

This comprehensive introduction to intercultural pragmatics examines the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in the analysis of talk across cultures. The book includes: * introduction to the key issues in culture and communication * examination of cross-cultural and intercultural communication * empirical case studies from a variety of languages, including German, Greek, Japanese and Chinese * practical chapters on pragmatics research, recording and analysing data, and projects in intercultural pragmatics * exercises at the end of each chapter * glossary of terms This second edition of Culturally Speaking will be an essential guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in communication across cultures.

Author : Christine Béal,Kerry Mullan,Bert Peeters
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443855273

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Cross-culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-culturally by Christine Béal,Kerry Mullan,Bert Peeters Pdf

Did you know that, to get a job in Australia, it is important to use the right balance of informal and formal language during the interview? Did you know that student advising in Wu Chinese (spoken around Shanghai) is not a face-threatening activity, contrary to general perceptions about the nature of advice giving? Did you know that the use of minimal eye contact and flat intonation by Japanese speakers is interpreted by native English speakers as a lack of interest and willingness to communicate? Did you know that French and Australian English speakers show a surprising number of similarities in the way they use conversational humour in social visits? Think you know how to address your Italian lecturer or tutor? Think again! These are some of the findings arrived at in this exciting new collection of papers from an array of international scholars who represent different theoretical perspectives, but who all study communicative behaviour across languages and cultures, including English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Wu Chinese. Adopting a comparative or cross-cultural approach, the majority of the contributions draw on authentic examples from a wide range of corpora, including social visits among friends, advising sessions involving recent high school graduates and/or their parents, simulated employment interviews and interactions involving second language learners. Contributions of a pedagogical approach offer practical assistance to the cross-cultural learner through a range of classroom activities. These include: a cross-linguistic comparison of conceptual metaphors; an applied ethnolinguistics framework; and ethnographic critical cultural awareness and reflexivity exercises. All of these activities are designed to equip the learner to study the communicative behaviours and cultural values of the target language. This edited volume is an important contribution to the growing body of work dedicated to better understanding the linguistic and pragmatic aspects of cross-cultural competence required for successful communication across cultural boundaries. It will appeal to readers interested in linguistics, interactional styles and communicative behaviour, cross-cultural pragmatics and intercultural communication.

Author : Zaretta Hammond
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483308029

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Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain by Zaretta Hammond Pdf

A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation—until now. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. The book includes: Information on how one’s culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships Ten “key moves” to build students’ learner operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners Prompts for action and valuable self-reflection

Author : Fern L. Johnson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0803959125

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Speaking Culturally by Fern L. Johnson Pdf

Speaking Culturally examines the changing cultural demographics of the United States from a linguistic perspective. The author highlights the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans.

Author : Clíona Schwerter, Stephanie Ní Ríordáin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838212562

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Speaking like a Spanish Cow: Cultural Errors in Translation by Clíona Schwerter, Stephanie Ní Ríordáin Pdf

What is a cultural error? What causes it? What are the consequences of such an error? This volume enables the reader to identify cultural errors and to understand how they are produced. Sometimes they come about because of the gap between the source culture and the target culture, on other occasions they are the result of the cultural inadequacies of the translator, or perhaps the ambiguity arises because of errors in the reception of the translated text. The meta-translational problem of the cultural error is explored in great detail in this book. The authors address the fundamental theoretical issues that underpin the term. The essays examine a variety of topics ranging from the deliberate political manipulation of cultural sources in Russia to the colonial translations at the heart of Edward FitzGerald’s famous translation The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Adopting a resolutely transdisciplinary approach, the seventeen contributors to this volume come from a variety of academic backgrounds in music, art, literature, and linguistics. They provide an innovative reading of a key term in translation studies today.

Author : David Boromisza-Habashi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271060750

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Speaking Hatefully by David Boromisza-Habashi Pdf

In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term “hate speech” as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral struggle in public deliberation. This empirical study of gyűlöletbeszéd, or "hate speech," in Hungary documents competing meanings of the term, the interpretive strategies used to generate those competing meanings, and the parallel moral systems that inspire political actors to question their opponents’ interpretations. In contrast to most existing treatments of the subject, Boromisza-Habashi’s argument does not rely on pre-existing definitions of "hate speech." Instead, he uses a combination of ethnographic and discourse analytic methods to map existing meanings and provide insight into the sociocultural life of those meanings in a troubled political environment.

Author : Rhona B. Genzel
Publisher : Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1424004047

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Culturally Speaking by Rhona B. Genzel Pdf

Culturally Speaking builds useful, comfortable, communication skills in a new culture through an interactive exploration of everyday experiences. Students share their own cultural thoughts and traditions and compare them with contemporary American customs and everyday situations.

Author : Janet Holmes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405178457

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Gendered Talk at Work by Janet Holmes Pdf

Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. written accessibly by one of the field’s foremost researchers explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of meaning in workplace interaction uses original and insightfully analyzed data to focus on the ways in which both women and men draw on gendered discourse resources to enact a range of workplace roles illustrates how a qualitative analysis of workplace discourse can throw light on the many ways in which workplace discourse provides a resource for constructing gender identity as one component of our complex socio-cultural identity

Author : Ali Igmen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822978091

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Speaking Soviet with an Accent by Ali Igmen Pdf

Speaking Soviet with an Accent presents the first English-language study of Soviet culture clubs in Kyrgyzstan. These clubs profoundly influenced the future of Kyrgyz cultural identity and fostered the work of many artists, such as famed novelist Chingiz Aitmatov. Based on extensive oral history and archival research, Ali Igmen follows the rise of culture clubs beginning in the 1920s, when they were established to inculcate Soviet ideology and create a sedentary lifestyle among the historically nomadic Kyrgyz people. These “Red clubs” are fondly remembered by locals as one of the few places where lively activities and socialization with other members of their ail (village or tribal unit) could be found. Through lectures, readings, books, plays, concerts, operas, visual arts, and cultural Olympiads, locals were exposed to Soviet notions of modernization. But these programs also encouraged the creation of a newfound “Kyrgyzness” that preserved aspects of local traditions and celebrated the achievements of Kyrgyz citizens in the building of a new state. These ideals proved appealing to many Kyrgyz, who, for centuries, had seen riches and power in the hands of a few tribal chieftains and Russian imperialists. This book offers new insights into the formation of modern cultural identity in Central Asia. Here, like their imperial predecessors, the Soviets sought to extend their physical borders and political influence. But Igmen also reveals the remarkable agency of the Kyrgyz people, who employed available resources to meld their own heritage with Soviet and Russian ideologies and form artistic expressions that continue to influence Kyrgyzstan today.

Author : Felicitas D. Goodman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781725221956

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Speaking in Tongues by Felicitas D. Goodman Pdf

Speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, is practiced in many different religions around the world. Dismissed as meaningless gibberish by some observers, it has been the subject of only a few fragmentary studies. The work of Felicitas D. Goodman represents the first cross-cultural analysis of this enigmatic behavior, and she brings to her research an extensive background in linguistics and anthropology. Dr. Goodman's fieldwork included living with apostolic congregations in Mexico City, in the Yucatan with Maya Indians, and visits with a congregation in Hammond, Indiana. Her observations were preserved on a remarkable collection of sound recordings and films. For this book she presents a selection of conversion stories that highlights the personality structure and experiences of the speakers. A detailed analysis of the phonological and suprasegmental features of the recorded utterances show a surprising cross-cultural agreement. This led Goodman to believe that glossolalists speak the way they do because their speech behavior is modified in a particular mental state, often termed trance, into which they place themselves. In this light the glossolalia utterance is seen as an artifact of a hyperaroused mental state, or, in Chomskyan terms, as the surface structure of a nonlinguistic deep structure, that of the altered state of consciousness. Goodman describes the hyperaroused mental state as a neurophysiological phenomenon, as well as the associated patterns of movement, and the problems of waking from it. Goodman's diachronic approach yielded equally surprising data about the changes and the waning of the behavior over time. But, as she observes, "we have barely touched the edge of a very large area of inquiry." Her fascinating study opens a number of new avenues of research for anthropologists, such as the study of physiological states accompanying linguistic and ritual behavior.

Author : Helen Spencer-Oatey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350934089

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Culturally Speaking by Helen Spencer-Oatey Pdf

Author : Raymond Chang,Margaret Scrogin Chang
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0393321878

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Speaking of Chinese by Raymond Chang,Margaret Scrogin Chang Pdf

"This pleasant, unpretentious account [is] a small stream leading to the ocean of the culture of China."--Scientific American