Language And Cultural Change

Author : Alex Panicacci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000451054

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Exploring Identity Across Language and Culture by Alex Panicacci Pdf

This book explores the ways in which migrants’ experience in today’s multilingual and multicultural society informs language use and processing, behavioural patterns, and perceptions of self-identity. Drawing on survey data from hundreds of Italian migrants living in English- speaking countries, in conjunction with more focused interviews, this volume unpacks reciprocal influences between linguistic, cultural, and psychological variables to shed light on how migrants emotionally engage with the local and heritage dimensions across public and private spaces. Visualising the impact of a constant shifting of linguistic and cultural practices can enhance our understanding of migration experiences, foreign language acquisition, language processing and socialisation, inclusion, integration, social dynamics, acculturation tendencies, and cross-cultural communication patterns. Overall, this book appeals to students and scholars interested in gaining nuanced insights into the linguistic, cultural, and psychological underpinnings of migration experiences in such disciplines as sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and social psychology.

Author : Lodi Nauta
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042917571

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Language and Cultural Change by Lodi Nauta Pdf

It is common wisdom that language is culturally embedded. Cultural change is often accompanied by a change in idiom, in language or in ideas about language. No period serves as a better example of the formative influence of language on culture than the Renaissance. With the advent of humanism new modes of speaking and writing arose. But not only did classical Latin become the paradigm of clear and elegant writing, it also gave rise to new ideas about language and the teaching of it. Some scholars have argued that the cultural paradigm shift from scholasticism to humanism was causally determined by the rediscovery, study and emulation of the classical language, for learning a new language opens up new possibilities for exploring and describing one's perceptions, thoughts and beliefs. However, the vernacular traditions too rose to prominence and vied with Latin for cultural prestige. This volume, number XXIV in the series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at a workshop on language and cultural change held in Groningen in February 2004. Ten specialists explore the multifarious ways in which language contributed to the shaping of Renaissance culture. They discuss themes such as the relationship between medieval and classical Latin, between Latin and the vernacular, between humanist and scholastic conceptions of language and grammar, translation from Latin into the vernacular, Jewish ideas about different kinds of Hebrew, and shifting ideas on the power and limits of language in the articulation of truth and divine wisdom. There are essays on major thinkers such as Nicholas of Cusa and Leonardo Bruni, but also on less well-known figures and texts. The volume as a whole hopes to contribute to a deeper understanding of the highly complex interplay between language and culture in the transition period between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : Guido Bonsaver,Alessandro Carlucci,Matthew Reza
Publisher : Italian Perspectives
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781888760

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Italy and the USA by Guido Bonsaver,Alessandro Carlucci,Matthew Reza Pdf

This collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects including linguistics, film studies, folk music, oral and written narrative, and history, which provide new comparative perspectives on the questions surrounding the mutual influence between Italian and U.S. cultures. The volume also showcases new research - quantitative, interpretative, and archival - which contributes to the study of cultural contact. It therefore offers new evidence to answer a question which has long been pivotal in various disciplines and research fields (from historical linguistics to cultural anthropology) - namely, how and to what extent cultural contact can affect long-term historical change?

Author : Don Kulick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521599261

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Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction by Don Kulick Pdf

This book, first published in 1992, is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among the people of Gapun, a small community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.

Author : British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853592072

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Language and Culture by British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting Pdf

These papers from the 24th Annual Meeting of BAAL have been selected for the diversity of perspective which they offer on the theme of language and culture, and on the way in which they reflect current thinking on the interdependence of language use and situational context.

Author : Eva Hung
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294487

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Translation and Cultural Change by Eva Hung Pdf

History tells us that translation plays a part in the development of all cultures. Historical cases also show us repeatedly that translated works which had real social and cultural impact often bear little resemblance to the idealized concept of a ‘good translation’. Since the perception and reception of translated works — as well as the translation norms which are established through contest and/or consensus — reflect the concerns, preferences and aspirations of their host cultures, they are never static or homogenous even within a given culture. This book is dedicated to exploring some of the factors in the interplay of culture and translation, with an emphasis on translation activities outside the Anglo-European tradition, particularly in China and Japan.

Author : Andreas Buerki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108477468

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Formulaic Language and Linguistic Change by Andreas Buerki Pdf

Using rigorous data-led methods, the book analyses formulaic language from the angle of historical linguistics, revealing key new insights.

Author : Ivy Boachie
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783346268501

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The influence of social contacts on language and culture in a changing society by Ivy Boachie Pdf

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 1.0, University of Canterbury (Social Anthropology), course: Language and culture, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to give an insight on the meaning of language and culture change and to show the exceptional capabilities of social contacts that leads to major changes in societies. The following chapters will first focus on the significance of a language in culture and furthermore will continue to dispute the relations to culture as such. Although there are many proposals on language, an anthropological view will be provided, with the intention to see language as a practical phenomenon in society. Next, a few changing processes and the causes and impacts will be mentioned. The analysing of factors and influences that leads to change will be displayed and subsequently the author will mention one illustration on a particular language called Tok Pisin. Finally, the importance of language for identity will complete the paper.

Author : Svenja Völkel,Nico Nassenstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110727159

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Approaches to Language and Culture by Svenja Völkel,Nico Nassenstein Pdf

This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.

Author : Paul Bate
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483163956

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Strategies for Cultural Change by Paul Bate Pdf

Strategies for Cultural Change develops a conceptual framework for thinking about cultural change. Starting with a discussion of the vocabulary (the concepts) of cultural change, the book moves on to the grammar (the thinking structures), and finally the ""oral"" practice (the applications) of cultural change in the organizational setting. Four main questions are addressed: Why change culture? Is planned cultural change possible? What kind of cultural change is envisaged? How does cultural change occur? The book contains 14 chapters organized into two parts. Part One examines the different types of cultural change strategy in some depth. ""Developmental"" and ""transformational"" strategies are then brought together into a single conceptual framework for cultural change. Part Two shifts from strategy to implementation; from thinking frameworks to frameworks for action. It begins by surveying current practice and examines the various, often strikingly different, ways in which people seek to effect cultural change in their organizations. Accounts are presented based both on the author's own first-hand experiences of working with private and public sector companies on cultural change programs, and on an extensive review of the available literature.

Author : Amy L. Paugh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857457615

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Playing with Languages by Amy L. Paugh Pdf

Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school, village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and examines the role of children and their social worlds. It offers much-needed insights into the study of language socialization, language shift and Caribbean children’s agency and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of children’s cultures. Further, it demonstrates the critical role played by children in the transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which ultimately may determine the fate of a language.

Author : Carey McIntosh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004430631

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Semantics and Cultural Change in the British Enlightenment: New Words and Old by Carey McIntosh Pdf

A study of English semantics during the Enlightenment. New words 1650–1800 reflect the new middle-class culture of sociability, commerce, and science. Old mostly obsolete words illuminate the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, outrageous sexism, magic, horses, bizarre food.

Author : Jacek Mianowski
Publisher : English Literature and Culture in Context
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : 3631672233

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Ethnolinguistics, Cultural Change and Early Scripts from England and Wales by Jacek Mianowski Pdf

Oral Cultures - On the Emergence of Writing - Antique-Medieval Transition as a Cultural Process - Research methodology - Transformation of the Barbaric Mentality - Analysis of the material

Author : Thomas Edward Dutton
Publisher : Department of Linguistics Research School of Pacific
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015029269589

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Culture Change, Language Change by Thomas Edward Dutton Pdf

Author : Ben G. Blount,Mary Sanches
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483277653

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Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change by Ben G. Blount,Mary Sanches Pdf

Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change focuses on the influence of sociocultural terms on the forms of languages. The selection first underscores the sociocultural dimensions of language change and language evolution and speech style. Discussions focus on the relation of speech style and language evolution, linguistic evidence of language evolution, autonomy of code and style, language contact phenomena, and extension of the concept of language. The book then takes a look at speech and social prestige in the Belizian speech community; Japanese numeral classifiers; and speculations on the growth of ethnobotanical nomenclature. Topics include appearance of varietal names, differentiation and formation of specific names, six universal categories of ethnobotanical nomenclature, salience of speech, and prestige, social success, and language. The publication elaborates on color categorization in West Futunese; creolization and syntactic change in New Guinea Tok Pisin; relexification processes in Philippine Creole Spanish; and the historical and sociocultural aspects of the distribution of linguistic variants in highland Chiapas, Mexico. The selection is a valuable source of data for language experts and researchers interested in the sociocultural dimensions of language change.