Culture
A community that shares a common social space and history, and a common system of standard of perceiving, believing and acting.
What is culture?
A social group that shares knowledge of one linguistic code and its patterns of use.
What is a speech community?
The study of what speakers mean with words, as distinct from what the code means
What is pragmatics?
A social community that has broadly accepted agreed set of common public goals and purposes in its use of spoken and written language.
What is a discourse community?
The synchronic social/societal and diachronic historical context of language use.
What is sociocultural context?
The relation between a signifier (word or sound) and the signified (image or concept)
What is a sign?
Socialization the process by which a person internalizes the conventions of behavior imposed by a society or social group.
What is socialization?
A speaking or writing style marking a discourse community's language use, beyond grammar or lexicon.
What is discourse accent?
The Linguistic Relativity Principle
Another name for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
A term coined by Antonio Cramsci to refer to the predominant organizational form of power and domination across the economy, political, culture and ideological domains of a society, or across societies.
What is hegemony?
Everyday gestures, norms and speech
What is daily culture?
A meaning of words based on resemblance of words to reality, for example, onomatopoeia (bash, smash, mash, crash, dash)
What is iconic?
Term coined by Edward Said to denote the colonialist perspective taken by European writers on the Orient and by extension, a colonialist view of any foreign culture
What is orientalism?
The person who discovered that language is key to understanding Trobriand Island Culture.
What did Bronislaw Malinowski achieve?
The study of how meaning is encoded in language, as distinct from what speakers mean to say when they use language
What is semantics?