Definitions of "culture"
DEFINITIONS OF CULTURE
CULTURAL CONCEPTS & LINGUOCULTUROLOGY
NON-EQUIVALENT VOCABULARY & LACUNAE
Communicative Competence
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Who defined culture as an integrated pattern of human behavior?

Scientists in linguistics and social sciences.

100

Who defined culture as an integrated pattern of human behavior?

Scientists in linguistics and social sciences.

100

What is the main subject of research in linguoculturology?

cultural concept

100

What is non-equivalent vocabulary?

Words that cannot be translated by a single word into another language.

100

Which researcher developed a framework of communicative competence in 1984?

Canale

200

What does culture include besides language?

Customs, rituals, manners, and roles.

200

What does culture include besides language?

Customs, rituals, manners, and roles.

200

How is a concept understood in linguoculturology?

As a cultural–mental–lexical expression.

200

What do non-equivalent words usually reflect?

Culture-specific phenomena.


200

Name the four elements of communicative competence.

Grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic competence

300

What ability is essential for culture to survive?

The ability to transmit culture to future generations.

300

What ability is essential for culture to survive?

The ability to transmit culture to future generations.

300

Who considered a concept part of culture in the human mind?

Y. S. Stepanov.

300

What are borrowed non-equivalent words called?

Exotic vocabulary (exotisms).

300

Giving alternative phrases for unknown words is called?

Circumlocution/Paraphrasing

400

According to V. N. Telia, how is culture described?

As world-conception, world-perception, and world-comprehension.

400

According to V. N. Telia, how is culture described?  

As world-conception, world-perception, and world-comprehension.

400

What type of mental structure is a cultural concept?

A multifunctional mental expression.

400

What is a lacuna?

A gap where a word has no equivalent in another language.

400

What is the compensatory element used when learners’ language skills are insufficient?

Strategic competence