Risager, Karen 1947-
Language and Culture : Global Flows and Local Complexity / Karen Risager. - 1st ed. - Toronto : Multilingual Matters, 2006. - xiii, 212 p. ; ill. cov. : 21 cm. - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education .
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Language and Culture in a Global Perspective
Introduction: Inseparability of Language and Culture? -- Language and Culture: Generic and Differential -- An Analytical Distinction between Language and Culture -- Foreign- and Second-Language Teaching: An Illustrative Vantage Point -- The Concept of Foreign Language and Transnational Mobility -- First Language and 'First-Language Culture' -- The Whorfian Hypothesis: First Language vs. Foreign/Second Language -- Culture in Relation to Language vs. Language in Relation to Culture -- Overview of This Book 2. Tour de France in German Language Teaching: A Preliminary Analysis
Introduction -- Tour de France in German Language Teaching -- Linguistic Practice -- Cultural and Linguistic Context -- Cultural and Linguistic Content -- Tour de France: A Multidimensional Relationship between Language and Culture -- Tour de France: An Element of the Spread of Language and Culture in the World -- The Nationalization of Language Studies -- The Internationalization of Language Studies: Denationalisation? -- Conclusion 3. The Concept of Culture: An Introduction
Introduction -- The Concept of Culture: Hierarchical, Differential and Generic -- The Concept of Culture in European Cultural History: An Ancient Metaphor --Intersection between the Two Sets of Culture Concepts -- The Concept of Language in European Cultural History -- Concepts of Culture in Anthropology -- Practice-oriented Concepts of Culture and Cultural Studies -- Conclusion 4. Language, Nation and Culture: The German Tradition
Introduction -- The Concept of Nation With or Without a Linguistic Criterion -- The Concept of Nation With a Linguistic Criterion: Central and Eastern Europe -- Johann Gottfried von Herder -- Wilhelm von Humboldt -- Herder, Humboldt and National Romanticism -- Conclusion 5. Cultural Complexity
Introduction -- Ulf Hannerz: The Two Loci of Culture and the Cultural Process -- American and European Sources of Inspiration -- The Global Ecumene -- Four Frameworks of Cultural Flow -- Hannerz vs. Friedman -- Conclusion
6. A Sociolinguistic View of Language
Introduction -- Linguistic Practice -- Linguistic Resources -- The Linguistic System as a Discursive Construction -- The Loci of Language 2 + 1 -- Conclusion
7. Linguistic Flows and Linguistic Complexity
Introduction -- Linguistic Flows in Social Networks -- 'Linguistic Flows' or 'Language Spread'? -- First Language/Early Second Language vs. Foreign Language/Late Second Language -- Flows of First Language or Early Second Language -- Flows of Foreign Language or Late Second Language -- Textual Flows -- Lexical Flows -- Global Flows and Local Complexity: Danish and Denmark -- Linguistic Complexity and Homogeneity in Language Teaching -- Conclusion
8. Languacultural Dimensions
Introduction -- Michael Agar: Languaculture -- Paul Friedrich: Linguaculture -- Languaculture: Three Cultural Dimensions of Language -- The Loci of Languaculture: 2 + 1 -- Languaculture in Linguistic Practice -- Languaculture in Linguistic Resources Languaculture in 'The Linguistic System' -- The Whorfian Hypothesis and the Concept of Languaculture -- The Term 'Languaculture' -- Conclusion 9. Discourse and Double Intertextuality
Introduction -- A Concept of Discourse that is Content-oriented, Yet Still Linguistic -- A Non-differential Concept of Language -- Double Intertextuality -- Translation of Discourse from Language to Language -- Discursive Resources -- Order of Discourse -- Conclusion 10. Cultural Contexts
Introduction -- The Linguistic Concept of Context -- Cultural Context Seen as a Complex Historical Macro-context -- First-language Context, Foreign-language Context and Second-language Context -- Cultural Contexts in Language Teaching -- Life Context -- Does 'Language' Have a Cultural Context? -- Conclusion 12. Linguistic, Discursive and Cultural Flows
Introduction -- Linguistic Flows -- Discursive Flows -- Cultural Flows -- Tour de France: A Local Integration Process -- Conclusion 13. The Language-Culture Nexus
Introduction -- The Communicative Event -- The Language-Culture Nexus: A Local Integration -- The Language-Culture Nexus: Convergent or Divergent? -- Objective and Subjective Dimensions of the Language-Culture Nexus -- Language-Culture Nexuses at Higher Levels -- The Core of the Language-Culture Nexus: Reference to Reality -- Conclusion 14. Language and Culture: A Multidimensional Relationship
Language and Culture: Separability and Inseparability -- Implications for Language and Culture Pedagogy -- Further Perspectives References
"The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities." (Publisher's Website)
9781853598586 (pbk)
1853598585
Language and culture.
Multilingualism.
Mutliculturalism.
Language and Culture : Global Flows and Local Complexity / Karen Risager. - 1st ed. - Toronto : Multilingual Matters, 2006. - xiii, 212 p. ; ill. cov. : 21 cm. - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education .
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Language and Culture in a Global Perspective
Introduction: Inseparability of Language and Culture? -- Language and Culture: Generic and Differential -- An Analytical Distinction between Language and Culture -- Foreign- and Second-Language Teaching: An Illustrative Vantage Point -- The Concept of Foreign Language and Transnational Mobility -- First Language and 'First-Language Culture' -- The Whorfian Hypothesis: First Language vs. Foreign/Second Language -- Culture in Relation to Language vs. Language in Relation to Culture -- Overview of This Book 2. Tour de France in German Language Teaching: A Preliminary Analysis
Introduction -- Tour de France in German Language Teaching -- Linguistic Practice -- Cultural and Linguistic Context -- Cultural and Linguistic Content -- Tour de France: A Multidimensional Relationship between Language and Culture -- Tour de France: An Element of the Spread of Language and Culture in the World -- The Nationalization of Language Studies -- The Internationalization of Language Studies: Denationalisation? -- Conclusion 3. The Concept of Culture: An Introduction
Introduction -- The Concept of Culture: Hierarchical, Differential and Generic -- The Concept of Culture in European Cultural History: An Ancient Metaphor --Intersection between the Two Sets of Culture Concepts -- The Concept of Language in European Cultural History -- Concepts of Culture in Anthropology -- Practice-oriented Concepts of Culture and Cultural Studies -- Conclusion 4. Language, Nation and Culture: The German Tradition
Introduction -- The Concept of Nation With or Without a Linguistic Criterion -- The Concept of Nation With a Linguistic Criterion: Central and Eastern Europe -- Johann Gottfried von Herder -- Wilhelm von Humboldt -- Herder, Humboldt and National Romanticism -- Conclusion 5. Cultural Complexity
Introduction -- Ulf Hannerz: The Two Loci of Culture and the Cultural Process -- American and European Sources of Inspiration -- The Global Ecumene -- Four Frameworks of Cultural Flow -- Hannerz vs. Friedman -- Conclusion
6. A Sociolinguistic View of Language
Introduction -- Linguistic Practice -- Linguistic Resources -- The Linguistic System as a Discursive Construction -- The Loci of Language 2 + 1 -- Conclusion
7. Linguistic Flows and Linguistic Complexity
Introduction -- Linguistic Flows in Social Networks -- 'Linguistic Flows' or 'Language Spread'? -- First Language/Early Second Language vs. Foreign Language/Late Second Language -- Flows of First Language or Early Second Language -- Flows of Foreign Language or Late Second Language -- Textual Flows -- Lexical Flows -- Global Flows and Local Complexity: Danish and Denmark -- Linguistic Complexity and Homogeneity in Language Teaching -- Conclusion
8. Languacultural Dimensions
Introduction -- Michael Agar: Languaculture -- Paul Friedrich: Linguaculture -- Languaculture: Three Cultural Dimensions of Language -- The Loci of Languaculture: 2 + 1 -- Languaculture in Linguistic Practice -- Languaculture in Linguistic Resources Languaculture in 'The Linguistic System' -- The Whorfian Hypothesis and the Concept of Languaculture -- The Term 'Languaculture' -- Conclusion 9. Discourse and Double Intertextuality
Introduction -- A Concept of Discourse that is Content-oriented, Yet Still Linguistic -- A Non-differential Concept of Language -- Double Intertextuality -- Translation of Discourse from Language to Language -- Discursive Resources -- Order of Discourse -- Conclusion 10. Cultural Contexts
Introduction -- The Linguistic Concept of Context -- Cultural Context Seen as a Complex Historical Macro-context -- First-language Context, Foreign-language Context and Second-language Context -- Cultural Contexts in Language Teaching -- Life Context -- Does 'Language' Have a Cultural Context? -- Conclusion 12. Linguistic, Discursive and Cultural Flows
Introduction -- Linguistic Flows -- Discursive Flows -- Cultural Flows -- Tour de France: A Local Integration Process -- Conclusion 13. The Language-Culture Nexus
Introduction -- The Communicative Event -- The Language-Culture Nexus: A Local Integration -- The Language-Culture Nexus: Convergent or Divergent? -- Objective and Subjective Dimensions of the Language-Culture Nexus -- Language-Culture Nexuses at Higher Levels -- The Core of the Language-Culture Nexus: Reference to Reality -- Conclusion 14. Language and Culture: A Multidimensional Relationship
Language and Culture: Separability and Inseparability -- Implications for Language and Culture Pedagogy -- Further Perspectives References
"The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities." (Publisher's Website)
9781853598586 (pbk)
1853598585
Language and culture.
Multilingualism.
Mutliculturalism.