Names from Cultural Studies
Who introduced Sapir-Whorf's hypothesis?
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf
What language group does the Kazakh language belong to?
Turkic group of languages
The culture that consists of intangible and abstract concepts such as language, rituals, customs and traditions, etc.
Non-material culture or spiritual culture
What is pragmatics in semiotics according to Charles Morris?
The way how signs and symbols affect human behaviour
The concepts of “memory”, “oblivion”, “nostalgia” and “ressentiment” have been used in...
a) the sciences of culture in the study of identity
b) historical and cultural complexes
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 netiquette?
Netiquette, or Internet etiquette, is an ideal pattern of behavior for Internet users, guidelines about what is acceptable in an online medium for personal and professional use.
What is a symbolic view of culture according to Clifford Geertz and Victor Turner?
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 main purpose of national idea is …
... consolidation of the entire society.
Who introduced the term 'Cultural studies'?
An American anthropologist Leslie A.White in 1949 in his work "The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization"
What was the subject of Kazakh writers’ novels in the XXth century?
... the peaceful life of the country, the heroism of everyday socialist labor.
What is ‘cultural meme’?
It is a concept introduced by Richard Dawkins which stands for a popular, repeatable, transferable cultural unit that is similar to human genes.
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).
Museums, libraries, historical or botanical societies, and community cultural centers, archives, churches, mosques, art galleries are …
Cultural institutions
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
Semiotics
Glocalization is ..
... the transformation of the globalization process on a local level
What is subculture?
The way of life, customs, and ideas of a particular group of people within a society that are different from the rest of that society.
Name of the author of opera ‘Birzhan-Sara’ which was first performed in 1946
Mukhan Tulebayev
Who is Anakharsis and what do you know about him?
He is 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 wise words/quotations.
What is cultural code? Who was a founder of this term?
Culture code is a key method developed by Clotaire Rapaille to understand the type of culture, unique cultural features encoded in some form of information to identify the culture.
What is strong and weak version of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Strong - 1. Language definitely determines the thoughts.
Weak - 2. Language influences on some aspects of behavior and perceptions of the world.
What is paradox? Give some examples of moral paradoxes?
Contradictory statements, thoughts, meanings against the established norms; e.g. war, murder, lie, etc.