... state or stage of civilization, as in the case of certain nation period" (Macquarie Dictionary). Every nationality has their own culture, which includes language, customs, life habits and so on. Using English as an international language can help people from different cultural backgrounds understand each other with less misunderstanding (House, 1999), which is the most important aspect in cross-culture ... being's languages. Because for most languages the nation (a vernacular) is not adequate, it becomes necessary to supplement its resources to make it into a language. Every vernacular ca...

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... cultures has words or slang specific only to each era, words that fit the current culture which made be laid back, uptight, military, etc., and most of the slang for the era will dissolve in the given culture's language, but it will not be forgotten. We now live in a heavily technology-based society, all of the cultures do. So now, we have ... new words such as email, hard disk, Microsoft, catadioptrics, laser disk, Botox, and Bill Gates in our language. All of these words are influenced by our machine-driven culture of today. None of these words were prevalent in the languages of yeste...

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... is thought to be soft. Whereas a woman can get away with more indirect way of talking because we are thought to be a weaker sex any way and a woman who always asks for exactly what she she wants is too bossy or a bitch even. Both genders use indirectness but in different situations if they ... are talking to a boss, co-worker or an employee there are different ways to say and get what you want out of the person(s) being asked. In Japan there is a lot more use of indirectness because it is impolite of a person ... Doublespeak is another way people communicate. One of the types of double...

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... move on through the twenty-first century, we as a society should make it a priority to have one common language that is spoken and understood by everyone. Getting rid of this, one of the more prominent differences in every culture, our society would grow together and have the ability to work more efficiently. There would be no need for translation of literature between languages ... the richest literature. Even when text is translated, it is impossible to get the exact meaning as the original text. When texts are translated from language to language the accuracy of meaning decreases sub...

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... is thought to be soft. Whereas a woman can get away with more indirect way of talking because we are thought to be a weaker sex any way and a woman who always asks for exactly what she she wants is too bossy or a bitch even. Both genders use indirectness but in different situations if they ... are talking to a boss, co-worker or an employee there are different ways to say and get what you want out of the person(s) being asked. In Japan there is a lot more use of indirectness because it is impolite of a person ... Doublespeak is another way people communicate. One of the types of double...

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... Lee Whorf was interested whether people speaking different languages see the same things differently. According to him and his theory of linguistic relativity, language shapes the way we think and determines what we think about. The scientist believes that Russian speakers and English-speaking people see the world differently. One of the greatest examples which demonstrate that people see ... person needs to use special closes, to follow peculiar rules and be specific. Japanese language is a vivid example of how language and culture are interrelated. It is said that Japanese is an isolate...

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... teaching the target culture. Contrary to this view, Graddol (1997) suggested home culture by giving the reason that the global future of English would be determined by second and foreign language speakers. This paper, taking this argument as a starting point, provides the basic content of culture teaching in ELT through varying definitions of culture. Then, the study is to determine which ... , because of limited time, secondary structure approach was pursued. 13 articles relating to the research questions of culture and ELT were selected for analysis. Two of them were taken from Journa...

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... most people who don't speak it may not understand it, but even people who may understand the language our vocabulary may have a different meaning in their country, some regional varieties of the Spanish language are quite divergent form one another especially in pronunciation and vocabulary and less so in grammar. For instance I have a friend who speaks Spanish, but simply because I speak Spanish as well ... hacienda hoy?". My Grandparents are both from Spain, but my parents are both from Chicago, IL; my brothers and I were born and raised in Farmington, NM so growing up into our cultur...

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... judged for not speaking "correct Spanish" or "correct English", Chicanos began creating their own language which was both English and Spanish. It was a combination of two completely different languages, and by combining these two languages, there was no need to worry about having to fit into a certain society. ... shared the same pressure that I had. Us Chicanos are not from one culture or the other so we had to create our own culture, language, and means of communication. From personal experiences, I can say that one of the main reasons a Chicano has an accent while speaking English is ...

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... . Non-verbal communication is actions or gestures that can be perceived that don't come directly from physical language. Interaction between people would not be possible without these two forms of communication. Language is the primary means of preserving and transmitting culture (Porter 139). Language uses symbols (words) which are given sounds varying from culture to culture. The symbols are clumped together ... using different rules to form the actual language. These words are given meaning by the culture in which you live in. Language has several different primary functions such as l...

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... branch then to the Iranian branch then to the western branch then the northwestern branch. Linguistic change is when a language undergoes change due to internal and external factors due to new inventions and how complex the society is and if the speakers of the language are divided by natural borders or not. If the society gets new inventions then they need to make words to ... has been from the way the Kurds are oppressed, giving them a new world view. A dialect forms from an array of factors but mostly from natural barriers like mountains and deserts. A dialect is a form of a language...

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... . It attempts to reject people's misunderstanding of idioms in two nations. Cultural differences reflected in idioms analysis Idioms carry and reflect culture. The differences in the culture can be an obstacle in understanding the foreign language. Due to linguistic and cultural diversity, exact equivalence is no easy to achieve, especially in the translation of idioms, since they are heavily culture ... -laden. In the translation of English into Chinese or vice versa, the excellent script depends on both mastery of these two languages and the understanding of the culture, as the language...

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... prove to be a contentious matter. Sometimes a society may be complex; that is, many speakers may use more than one language, however we define language. We should also note that our definitions of language and culture are not independent: the definition of language includes in it a reference to culture. When two or more people communicate with each other in speech, we can call ... as traditions, conventions, social norms, customs, social habits, modes of living, patterns of thinking, beliefs, values, experience, world outlook and language. Culture is often bound up with language, which ...

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... serious when a couple had children because their marriage was not based on comprehension of language and culture mutually. Therefore, the relationship between children and their mothers who married cross-culturally experienced difficulties because of their language barrier and cultural differences. Today, the language barriers and cultural differences still exist. First, Korean mothers and their children suffer from their different mother tongues. It is very difficult for Korean mothers ... -culture. Therefore, Korean mothers do not understand their children's own culture and living patt...

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... I also believe that he came close to reaching cultural competence because he was able to speak the language, talk to the people that were from there and he was actually interested in the culture and wanted to learn more about it. It's important for those that are traveling to another country to ... , but both of them knew they were going to be there for two years and needed to learn the language. Their determination is really what helped them learn the language because without determination, they would have given up quickly and also would have never been able to speak to anyone in the c...

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... values of only their own culture therefore emphasis is put on white-western music, literature, language, history, religion, etc An ethnocentric curriculum does not value black, Asian or any other cultures except their own and therefore a pupil of a different ethnicity will not have the same knowledge and understanding of white-British culture as much as they may have of their own culture, however ... . For example, a sociologist found that respectful behaviour was expected from children at home in Asian families and this had a "knock-on effect in school " as parents were more supportive ...

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... an angry mood. The viewpoint of the author is that his relationship with his uncle is considerably big represented by some of the heroic use of style and language in the poem, such as "with knife and gimlet care he worked away at this on Sundays". But Edward sees his uncle as a God but going by the bible God did not work on ... the writer. Search For My Tongue by Sujata Bhatt is about the ways in which she finds it difficult switching between two languages, Gujarati and English. The tongue represents the language and the "mother tongue" is the native or original language. Sujata's main ...

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... cited in Cairney & Munsie, 1995, p.1). This is really evident through Heath's (1986) study of three communities. Considerable cultural variation was found in the acquisition of oral language and the way in which families introduced children to literacy. Focussing mainly on story reading, Heath was able to collect evidence of considerable differences in community styles of literacy socialisation. The ... similar to their own (Asselin, 2001a, p.1). Thus, marginalised families that are diverse in their language, culture, ethnicity and class are often represented as a deficit discourse. In ...

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... was removed from his home to help a group of scientists in Washington. These scientists were trying to study and recreate the Ofo language of which Thomas was finally the only speaker. Thomas was not always alone. He used to be surrounded by his family, but several disasters befell the Darko's and the last Ofo stood alone. In the story, Thomas" family was dead ... each of those people is dead. Because of the separation between them, Thomas was unaware that he had lost his entire family. This separation accounted for the death of their language and their culture. When Thomas moves to Was...

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... well as news about their new community, Little Saigon. Little Saigon assists the newly arrived immigrants with a line of offices that provide translation services, school and job application assistance, English language classes, and employment that requires little or no skills. For other longtime immigrants, Little Saigon helps them communicate with their More importantly, Little Saigon attracts young Vietnamese ... quot;heart" of the Vietnamese American community (Juan 9). The mall is also a designated meeting site of younger Vietnamese Americans with the attraction of multilingual sign...

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... own curiosity Abram would have assumed the woman was expecting an outer worldly presence to take the rice. Instead he began to notice the intimate and reciprocal relationship indigenous cultures have with the earth, and how the language they speak is closely intertwined with nature because of that. During Abram's trip to Indonesia he noticed that to his surprise, the shamans played ... a sensorial experience. For example, when Abram points out the origin of the names of different birds in the Koyukon language. He references how there is a distinct similarity between the names of the bir...

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... cultures around the globe have felt the impact of westernization, where the influence of the western beliefs and values drastically has faded theses culture's language and tradition. Both the media and technology in a whole has contributed to westernization. In like manner, this seems reasonable in the surface and can surely be seen in everyday life via the media. According to The Influence of American ... over their own unique Nigerian Culture. In the light of westernization, in one of Ifeoma Odinye & Ifeanyi Odinye writings, they state that: Many Nigerian languages have gone into exti...

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... (Hall 1996b, cited in Modernism to Postmodernism, 2003, p226) Lacan believed there can be no separation between the subject and society, as society inhibits each individual. Lacan looks at the unconscious as another sign system, 'the unconscious is articulated like a language". Lacan believes the unconscious is not unique to an individual, but is produced by culture. Lacan saw our unconscious too ... as the construction of the language and perceptions of others, there being no subject independent of the language. This relating particularly to hip-hop culture as a whole new language has ...

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... . Lam stated: To want to be rooted is a deep human desire, of course, but to be displaced and uprooted, alas, is a human condition -- Man's fate. All over the world, people are moving from language to language, from culture to culture, sensibility to sensibility, negotiating across time zones and continents. It's a world that resists simplification. Man's identity is in conflict, has become both the cause ... of pain and fear for some and the source of enormous inspiration for others. I am inclined, of course, to be on ... American culture. However, I follow my own culture as well. Due ...

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... from the Pacific Islands have established early childhood centres to keep their different cultures and languages flourishing in their communities in New Zealand. Because of the diversity of cultures, there is no single Pacific Islands curriculum, but there are historic links in language and culture, and there is a common geographic heritage. In different cultural communities it is expected that ... children to engage in activities at vastly different times in childhood, and may regard in other communities as surprising or even dangerous. For example in Fiji, children ... -29). Furtherm...

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