discuss language as an agent of cultural transmission or a custodian of culture‚ the meaning of the terms should be know. Language is the medium through which people communicate their feelings‚ thoughts and aspirations to one another. The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines language as "the system of sounds and words used by human to express their thoughts and feelings". Language is an intergral part of culture and it has the ability to transmit a people’s culture. But what is culture? According
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Institute of Indian Languages-University of Mysore 2012 Email: f_shojae24@yahoo.com Interrelationship between Culture and English Language Teaching Abstract: The relationship between language and culture is deeply rooted. Language is used to maintain and convey culture and cultural ties. Different ideas stem from differing language use within one’s culture and the whole intertwining of these relationships start at one’s birth. The dialectical connection between language and culture has always been
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CULTURAL AND LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN THE GLOBAL GEAR MARKET Matthew Jaster‚ Associate Editor If you’ve read any business publications lately‚ chances are you’ve seen an article or two covering language and cultural barriers in the global marketplace. Buzzwords like “globalization” and “global supply chain” frequently come up in discussions on training‚ networking and economic growth. At least once a week‚ a headline triumphantly declares a company “lost in translation” due to language or cultural
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The research on language and gender has been essential in providing answers regarding the sociolinguistic variation associated with speaker ’s gender. One of the main topics widely discussed in gender and language research is concerning the difference in language between men and women. This assignment is an attempt to answer the question: Do women and men talk differently? I will thoroughly investigate the question looking at the evidence which suggests women and men differ in language as well as examine
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Jadu Kolija‚ the core of Kokborok culture and language Joseph Pulinthanath sdb Kokborok language‚ like its speakers‚ seems to be critically poised at some crossroads of history. Strewn about the length of breadth of this hallowed land of erstwhile kings and kingdoms are numerous signs of resurgence and decadence. Caught in the middle‚ between two worlds one dead‚ the other powerless to be born‚ is a tongue‚ crisis-ridden yet buoyant: Kokborok‚ the mother-tongue of the ’borok’ people of Tripura
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risks‚ know the consequences‚ and we can then start to learn how to prevent it. I will examine in depth based on numerous studies done by psychologists‚ how society can shape our views and attitude towards life‚ how nonverbal communication‚ language and culture can play an important role in sexual violence. Do you know someone who has been sexually abused? If the answer is yes‚ who was the aggressor? Dominance is the power and influence one can have over others. Based on statistics that will be
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speak the Spanish language. The US government began using this term to refer to a person of Cuban‚ Mexican‚ Puerto Rican‚ South or Central American‚ or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race in the 1970’s. Then the term continued to be used and I have never felt offended by the term even though I know that it’s an easy term to generalize a whole lot of people. On the other hand you have the term Latino or Latina which definition is a person who speaks a romance language (i.e. Italian‚ Spanish
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English is an Obstacle in the Development of All Indian regional Languages Before independence‚ our rulers-the British had a definite policy in keeping us uneducated. They had seen a successful experiment in Africa‚ naming it the Dark Continent‚ a overpopulated teeming mass of handy slave like labour who never questioned their authority‚ asked for their rights or objected to be treated worse than animals. All because of their lack of literacy. The advantage with India was that
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automotive‚ or whatever sub category it may be; and bigger roles that play in to commercialism are gender roles . Men and women have very different lifestyles‚ what they buy‚ do‚ consume‚ and produce. As stated in Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes‚ “Popular conceptions of femininity and masculinity instead revolve around hierarchical appraisals of the “natural” roles of males and females. Members of both genders are believed to share many of the same human characteristics‚ although in different relative
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Gender inequality Gender can be defined as the socially constructed roles and duties society constructs‚ assigns and expects of males and females on the basis of their biological and physical characteristics. Gender is learnt‚ not permanent and differs from one community to another. Gender roles and responsibilities are found in all spheres of society be it economic‚ social‚ political or religious. Gender roles are affected by age‚ social class‚ ability‚ ethnicity and race. The gender roles help
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