We will be having a weekly discussion concerning any of the culture-language related topics , and we hope they'll be some participation .
* This week's discussion topic :
- what do you think the effect of the Enculturation and Acculturation processes in our society ?
You can start discussing by mentioning the positive and nigative side of both prosesses , and how does it effect ones indentity or personality .
ReplyDeleteWell as a positive side of the process it shows us several things for example :
ReplyDelete1- how to communicate with other cultures perfectly
2- in order to be accepted among the new society.
3- in my opinion both process enriches man's literacy
while the negative side of the process when other culture becomes much more obvious than the real identity. Here sometimes people who are attached to the culture they are studying may lose their identity.
Language exists in the context of cultural practices which, in turn, depend on the linguistic practices necessary for competent participation in a community. Therefore, to speak is to assume a culture, and to know a culture is like knowing a language. Culture is as much a product of language as language is a product of culture. Language and Culture are thus homologous mental realities. Cultural products are representations and interpretations of the world that must be communicated in order to be lived. “Control of linguistic means often translates into control over our relationship with the world just as the acceptance of linguistic forms and the rules for their use forces us to accept and reproduce particular ways of being in the world
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Duranti, Alessandro. (1997). Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge University Press.
according to what i posted,i think that is amazing and confusing at the same time, we cant separate language and culture cause each one describe the other.
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