Names from Cultural Studies
Who introduced Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf
To what language group belongs the Kazakh language?
Turkic group of languages
The culture that consists of intangible and abstract concepts such as language, rituals, customs and traditions etc.
Non-material culture
What is pragmatics in semiotics according to Charles Morris?
how signs affect human behaviour
A culture that is concerned with the external, mechanical and utilitarian object.
Material culture
He is a Russian-language poet, Turkologist, politician, and anti-nuclear activist who wrote about Turkic influence on The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (Slovo o Polku Igoreve). The essence of this work is about the unity of the human world, multilingual and multiethnic human culture
Olzhas Suleimenov
Who are the nomads?
A nomad is a member of a community without fixed habitation who regularly moves to and from the same areas
What is the difference between civilization and culture?
Civilisation is external and culture is internal.
What can you tell about symbolic view of culture?
Clifford Geertz and Victor Turner regarded culture as the system of signs which are created by human activity and which need practices and context.
The author of the following quote “Semiotics is studying everything which can be used in order to lie”
Umberto Eco
Who did introduce the term 'Culture studies'?
An American anthropologist Leslie A.White in 1949 in his work "The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization"
The Saka queen who fought against the Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire.
Tomyris
Semiotics
Ferdinand de Saussure analysed semiotics through language, whereas semiotics of Charles Pierce focused on …
cognitive aspects of semiotics (how people interpret signs and this process is called semiosis, so when a person tries to understand a sign people rely on multiple inferences and finally can reveal the full meaning of object).
Why do people stereotype?
To categorise and understand the world around us.
The Swiss researcher who developed the theory of semiotics and regarded the language as a complex sign system.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Material achievements of nomadic Saka tribes.
chariots, weapons, metallic industry, jewelry animal style, yurt (tent), pants, Golden Man, domestication of horses;
a concept introduced by Richard Dawkens and stands for a popular, repeatable, transferable cultural unit that is similar to human genes.
Why Sapir-Wharf hypothesis is considered as hypothesis and how these researchers collected data?
Their arguments have not been proven yet, and they conducted interviews and surveys and observations among African tribes.
Please, explain what means 'subculture' and give examples.
Cultural patterns that set apart a segment of a society's population (punks, hippies, hipsters, emos, goths).
Who did introduce the term ‘animism’?
Edward Taylor
Who is Anakharsis and what do you know about him?
a Scythian thinker, philosopher; he was a member of Ariopagus; he was from a royal family; he was a politician and knew personally Salon, Ancient Greek ruler, he took part in Olympic Games; he is known for his quotations.
What is cultural code? And who first used this concept?
Culture code is a key method developed by Clotaire Rapaille to understanding the type of culture, unique cultural features encoded in some form of information to identify the culture.
What is hard and soft version of Sapir-Wharf hypothesis?
Hard - 1. Language definitely determines the thoughts.
Soft - 2. Language influences on some aspects of behavior and perceptions of the world.
What is paradox? Examples of paradox and morality?
contradictory statements, thoughts, meanings against the established norms; e.g. war, abortion, murder, lie, etc.