Linguaculture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23740904
AutoresKaren Risager (0000-0001-8507-1200, Roskilde University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Páginas1-4
Fecha de publicación2019-12-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaEncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0709.pub2
OpenAlexW4250945188
ISBN9781405198431
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas10

This entry presents the concept of linguaculture (or languaculture) by following the history of the concept from the 1980s until today. The concept focuses on and specifies the relationship between language and culture. Originally it was introduced by linguistic anthropologists (Friedrich and Agar) to encompass the single universe of language and (the verbal aspects of) culture (e.g., rural southern Vermont linguaculture). Later it was taken up by language and culture educationalists (Risager and others) to designate the cultural dimensions of language in a globalized world characterized by migrations of people from one cultural context to another, and including situations where the language in question is being learned as a second or foreign language. Linguaculture has three interrelated dimensions: the semantic–pragmatic dimension, the poetic dimension, and the identity dimension. These dimensions are traditionally studied in relation to languages used as mother tongues or first languages, for instance in cross‐cultural semantics or in cultural linguistics. But in an educational perspective it should be emphasized that the dimensions are transformed in the processes of learning languages as second or foreign languages.

Aesthetics · Context (archaeology) · Cultural identity · Dimension (graph theory) · Foreign language · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical) · Poetry · Relation (database) · Social science · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · History · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching