Languages and Worldview

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Abstract

Asking and answering questions about what culture entails and examines the fundamental properties and intertwining nature of language and culture. This text explores linguistic relativity, lexical differences among languages and intercultural communication, including high and low contexts.

Changes to a variety of OER works were made by Manon Allard-Kropp in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies to tailor the text to fit the needs of the Languages and World View course at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Materials from the original sources have been combined, reorganized, and added to by the current author, and any conceptual or typographical errors are the responsibility of the current author.

Sources:

Anderson, Catherine. Fundamental Properties of Language. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IDNSZYXTXFk, 2018. https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/8 . Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

Anderson, Catherine. Mental Grammar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLf0ZIkbUxE, 2018. https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/12 . Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

“Anthropological Culture Concept.” In Cultural Anthropology. https://wikieducator.org/. Accessed December 20, 2019. https://wikieducator.org/Cultural_Anthropology/Anth_ Perspective/Key_Concepts . Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License

Boroditsky, Lera. How Language Shapes the Way We Think. https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_ boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think, 2018. https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/13 . Creative Commons license, Attribution–NonCommercial–No Derivatives

Calude, Andreea S., Alex Gendler, Mike Schell, and Addison Anderson. Does Grammar Matter? https://ed.ted.com/lessons/does-grammar-matter-andreea-s-calude, 2016. https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/9 . Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Center for Deployment Psychology. Military Culture Iceberg. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=LBF6BCV1wlc, 2014. https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/10 . Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

Cultural Anthropology - Wikibooks, Open Books for an Open World. Wikibooks, 2018. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cultural_Anthropology . Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

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Pym, Anthony. Do Women and Men Use Language the Same Way? https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Txd93vZQHWU. Accessed December 20, 2019. https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/15 . Creative Commons Attribution license

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Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - Jan 16 2020

Disciplines

  • Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
  • Linguistics
  • Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures

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