Language
These two languages each have more native speakers than English, but fewer speakers overall when you count second-language users.
What are Spanish and Mandarin Chinese?
This 19th century English poet and school administrator described culture as that which “seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light.”
Who is Matthew Arnold?
This kind of reading asks us to think about how a piece of writing is put together and what choices the writer made in creating it.
What is rhetorical reading (or "reading like a writer")?
The marketing firm Newzoom estimated that the global eSports economy would reach this financial value in U.S. dollars in 2018.
What is $1 billion?
This word for taking another person’s words and presenting them as your own, comes from the Latin word for “kidnap.”
What is "plagiarism"?
This “effect” (which also sounds like something you would put around a picture) describes the idea that “we can have different feelings about the same thing . . . depending on the language used to talk about it.”
What is the "framing effect"?
These kinds of cultures, often associated with young people, can be defined as “an identifiable group within a society, whose members share common values and have similar behavior patterns.” They “can be based on social characteristics, such as ethnicity, or on styles generated by the individuals who make [them] up,” and they “usually share some features with the host culture, but may also be oppositional to it.”
What are subcultures?
These kinds of words are frequently used to signal where we are presenting others’ ideas. They can be neutral, tentative, or strong.
What are reporting verbs?
Though it is unlikely to happen in time, this Olympic Games site and year showed interest in adding eSports, with an organizer saying, “The youth are interested, let’s meet them.”
What is Paris 2024?
This technique allows a writer to use another writer’s words directly provided that use is punctuated and cited properly.
What is quotation?
This hopeful artificial language was created in the late 19th century by the Polish ophthalmologist, Ludwik Zamenhof, and is “considered the most successful of modern invented languages.”
What is Esperanto?
“Culture is ordinary” was one of the key insights of this 20th century Welsh thinker who argued for taking seriously the everyday practices of common life as well as the products of art and learning.
Who is Raymond Williams?
This term, borrowed from the French, was defined by J.R. Martin as “how things get done when language is used to accomplish them.”
What is "genre"?
According to Matthew Byrd, this word is “the catchall phrase used to define the staggering levels of hostility and hate among some of the stars, fans, and teams of eSports.”
What is "toxicity"?
This Slavic language makes a distinction between light blue and dark blue as two different colors, goluboy and siniy, respectively.
What is Russian?
When presented with cards to put in sequential order, the Kuuk Thaayore aboriginal people of Australia use this method of spatial arrangement to represent time.
What is east to west?
This kind of culture was theorized as the product of a rapid growth in new media and communication technologies in the early to mid-20th century. The American critic Davis Macdonald described it in 1957 as “imposed from above. It is fabricated by technicians hired by businessmen; its audience are passive consumers, their participation limited to the choice between buying and not buying.”
What is mass culture?
This specific type of summary usually appears between the title and introduction of an academic text and is useful in online databases for determining the content of a specific piece. It is also a word that can mean “existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.”
What is an abstract?
This Asian nation, sometimes considered “the world’s most advanced” in the realm of eSports, is an example for Adrienne Shaw of the way in which the study of video games “others” those cultures that embrace gaming by emphasizing their differences from American culture. For instance, the people of this nation “are [described] as very different from Americans because they treat pro-gamers as heroes, unlike U.S. sports culture that values athletes, though both, arguably, treat individuals as idols for their ability to play games.”
What is South Korea?
This American university, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, offers a summer program at Soong Ching Ling School.
What is Wake Forest University?
This term, derived from words literally meaning “Frankish tongue” refers to “a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.” English is often considered a contemporary one.
What is a lingua franca?
This thinker, who was concerned in particular about the way Western cultures valued non-Western cultural artifacts, argued that what counts as certain forms of culture can change, writing “While the object systems of art and anthropology are institutionalized and powerful, they are not immutable. The categories of the beautiful, the cultural, and the authentic have changed and are changing. . . .”
Who is James Clifford?
Often used to describe another writer or thinker’s ideas in a specific, rather than a general way, this form of incorporating a source requires one to cite the original author, capture the meaning of the source idea, and present that idea in new words with a new sentence structure.
What is paraphrase?
According to communications scholar Adrienne Shaw, this phrase is a relatively new expression to academic writing, first appearing in 1996, and its use suggests that “game academics are defining their field of study as much as they are studying it.” “This,” Shaw continues, “is precisely why game studies should adopt the reflexivity of cultural studies in its analyses.” It is also the key term in her article’s title.
What is "video game culture"?
Even though they are unrelated tongues, the linguist Nicholas Ostler describes this language as being most similar to Malay and Chinese among “world” languages because it shares the “subject-verb-object” word order and has “nouns and verbs that display few inflections.”
What is English?