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While the role of culture in second and/or foreign language (L2/FL) learning and teaching has often been unquestioned, empirical research on culture learning and teaching in L2/FL education has been less common than opinion-oriented... more
. The problems of irreducibility, untranslatability, non-generalized existence of language are there as there persists always something irreducible in the interactions between the self and the other. Considering the Bengali society,... more
The subject of this thesis is “a study on the channels of distribution of Mc Dowell, Cherthala”. Distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of marketing mix. An organization or set of organizations (go-betweens) involved in the... more
Using an ethnography of speaking approach, this article discusses the ideological aspects of language practices, as they are played out in a traditional Yupik (Eskimo) village in Chukotka, in the Far East of the Russian Federation. The... more
El presente artículo se compone de dos partes. La primera está relacionada con la música carranguera, y la segunda, con la metodología socio-crítico literaria. El objetivo de este análisis socio-crítico literaria a la canción carranguera... more
Borghetti, C. (2019), 'Interculturality as collaborative identity management in language education'. Intercultural Communication Education, 2(1), pp. 20-38. Just over ten years ago, Block (2007, p. 2) called the increasing attention... more
Teaching a foreign language does not merely involve teaching its linguistic system but also its cultural system. A native speaker of English may tolerate EFL speaker's grammatical or phonological errors in communication, but cultural... more
This article discusses the use of the English language on the mission field in Africa today. While the learning of indigenous African languages was a must for every missionary in the past, contemporary experience shows that more and more... more
In response to the realization of the need to develop cultural awareness and intercultural communication competence, recent trends in education policy and pedagogy in the U.S. and the EU have sought to integrate more culture into foreign... more
This is an edited collection with 32 annotations written by students in my Intercultural Communication for Teachers class online in spring 2018.
With the onset of globalisation has come mass mobility of people which has led to an increase in individuals living outside their home communities and an increase in bilingual marriages. This investigation looks into the negotiation of... more
Nelle indagini di storia della lingua italiana del Cinquecento si osserva che lo storico processo del lento ma deciso affermarsi di un modello linguistico unitario s’intreccia con il volgarizzamento e la riscrittura della letteratura... more
Every country has its own culture as a character or a way of life. This character has to be preserved and maintained by every citizen of a country including Indonesia as a big nation which has many cultures and tribes. One of the effort... more
The Bangla world-view has been both liberal and prescriptive varying amongst classes, but having an underlying moral thread that resists deviance. This deviance could be social, professional, individual and sexual. The desire for... more
kenning—a descriptive phrase or compound word that replaces a noun Ex. in place of Grendel's name: " the Almighty's enemy " or " sin-stained demon " stock epithet – adjectives that point out special traits of people or things Ex. "... more
Il volume raccoglie le osservazioni sul lessico tecnico della musica e del teatro del Cinquecento, attestato dalle traduzioni manoscritte di alcuni trattati greci: «Onomasticon» di Polluce, i «Problemi musicali» («Probl. XIX»), attribuiti... more
"For the reconstruction of the military Mycenaean world scarcely we possess the information extracted from diverse slats written in Linear B, as well as the remains of some pictorial representations and scanty archaeological remains... more
Demonstrate that the etymology of the Spanish language spoken in Cuba was influenced by colonization. Beginning from the indigenous nations that originally inhabited the island as well as those nations that colonized, governed, assisted... more
In: Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia, (Slavica Bergensia 6) eds. I. Lunde & T. Roesen, Bergen. 2006. pp. 213–234. ISBN 82-90249-31-4 ISSN 1501-8954
An honest examination forces us to challenge common understandings of ethnicity and creolisation in Trinidad and Tobago. For the most interesting aspect is the death of Indian languages in Trinidad, as opposed to their survival in Fiji,... more
This is an edited collection with 78 annotations written by students in my Intercultural Communication for Teachers classes on campus and online in spring 2016.
This paper examines gender agreement in three little-known languages of the Aru Islands and places them within the larger pattern of " neuter gender " in eastern Indonesia. For each language, I look first at the variety of agreement... more
This is an edited collection with 19 annotations written by students in my Intercultural Communication for Teachers class on campus in spring 2017.
This is an edited collection with 48 annotations written by students in my Intercultural Communication for Teachers class in spring 2015.
SHORT TEXT/SUMMARY The problems of expressing items have been discussed throughout the history of language and thought. One of the main questions about items is whether people and the cultures in which they live do not have the same... more
Culture has become an important component of language teaching. Culture is a complex term to define, as it encompasses different sides. Teaching culture can be part of daily language activities and does not necessarily require creating... more
The article considers the possibility of translating the names of emotions into other languages, taking into account cultural and sociolinguistic factors. Based on the concepts created by researchers in traductology (e.g. John C. Catford)... more
Il presente articolo offre una riflessione sull'utilizzo didattico di materiale autentico per l'insegnamento della lingua italiana, come ad esempio testi culturali e settoriali, con l'obiettivo di sviluppare le abilità linguistiche di... more
Every country has its own culture as a character or a way of life. This character has to be preserved and maintained by every citizen of a country including Indonesia as a big nation which has many cultures and tribes. One of the effort... more
In recent years, the extracurricular training schools have approached most of the primary and secondary school students and become an integral part of their daily life. Due to their open school model and flexible and varied teaching... more