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Language in a Cultural Context Flashcards

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What is an anglophone world?

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Refers to the places in the world where English is spoken

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What is a text?

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Any written work or transcribed piece of speech

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What is culture?

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  1. The values, goals, convictions, and attitudes that people share in society
  2. Refers to the fine arts and a society’s appreciation for them
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What is context?

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Refers to the circumstances that surround the writing and the reading of a text

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What is cultural bias?

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Judging something from a different culture with reference to what is usual in your own culture

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What is language currency?

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The value of language

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What is instrumental motivation?

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Explains how people often learn a language in order to accomplish something

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What is lingua franca?

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A language spoken by people who do not share a native language

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In linguistics, what is convergence?

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What happens when people come together and accommodate for each other through their use of language

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What is integrative motivation?

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Refers to learning a language in order to become an integrated member of a particular society

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What is bilingualism?

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The phenomenon of people using two languages regularly

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What is language borrowing?

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The act of importing words into one language from another culture’s language

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What are loan words?

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Words that one culture borrows and incorporates from another language into its own

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What is a jargon?

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The vocabulary and manner of speech that defines and reflects a particular profession, which are difficult for others to understand

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What is an idiolect?

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A person’s unique use of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation

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What is divergence?

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The process of cultures splitting from each other, developing their use of language separately

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What is language?

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A system of communication that is mutually intelligible among all members of a society

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What is accent?

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The way in which someone pronounces a language

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What is dialect?

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A variety of language that is unique in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary

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What are pidgins?

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Improvised languages stripped of grammar, that are invented in order for people to communicate with each other

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What is code-switching?

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Switching from one dialect or language to another depending on whom they are talking to or what they wish to accomplish

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What is a vernacular?

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A language that is characteristic of a region

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What is language death?

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Occurs when the last native speakers of a language have died and no new generations speak their ancestors’ language fluently

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What is language planning?

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The effort made to prevent language death

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What is language imperialism?

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The dominance of one language over others

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What are primary sources?

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Stories, plays, films, etc., that reveal an event for the first time

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What are secondary sources?

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Texts about texts

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What is an audience?

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The group of listeners or readers for whom a text or message is intended

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What is register?

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The level of formality or informality expressed through one’s use of language

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What is a colloquialism?

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A linguistic feature that is associated with informal situations

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What is linguistic determinism?

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The concept that language determines what we are able to think

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What is purpose?

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The description of the writer’s intentions in writing a text

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What is deductive reasoning?

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An argument that comes to a specific conclusion by drawing on general rules

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What is inductive reasoning?

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An argument that comes to a general conclusion by drawing on specific cases

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What are the premises?

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The statements or propositions that arguments rely on to come to conclusions

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What is diction?

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The choice of vocabulary that a writer uses in order to create a tone

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What is close reading?

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The skill of analyzing and interpreting texts

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What are stylistic devices?

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Techniques that writers and speakers employ to instigate a response from their audiences

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What is denotation?

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Refers to what a word stands for in its most literal sense

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What is connotation?

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Refers to the aura of emotional meaning that we associate with a word

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