Language, Culture, and Communication in the United States
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 223
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Language, Culture, and Communication in the United States is a series of shared ideas about the nature of language, culture, and communication. It presents concepts and principles students can use to gain knowledge about how language and culture operate in daily experiences.
Language, Culture, and Communication in the United States presents material in three basic component parts:
- Theory – it presents theoretical language for representing and understanding instances of language, culture, and communication
- Demonstration – demonstrations or examples are given to apply concepts to your own worlds of experience
- Practice – students will be asked to practice using the framing concepts presented to arrive at their own examples and to work their way through the rest of the material
A Frame for the Study of Language, Culture and Communication (‘Frame’)
1. Preliminary Notes
2. Introduction
3. Searching for Knowledge about Culture
4. Studying Culture
5. Culture as Process of Interpretation
6. Types of Behavioral Regularities and Ideological Processes
7. How Culture Works (in/as Processes of Socialization)
8. Principles for the Study of Culture
9. What about Language?
10. Types of Language Function: Referential, Indexical and Semantic
11. Two Types of Language Regularity: Unmarked vs. Marked
12. Two Types of Language Use: Automatized vs. Foregrounded
13. Two Types of Indexical Function: Presupposed vs. Entailing
14. Principles for Studying Culture and Language: Reality is Infinite
15. Principles for Studying Culture and Language: All Representation is (thus) Necessarily ‘Reductive’
16. Principles for Studying Culture and Language: All Meaning is Based on Opposition
17. Final Problems and Their Solutions
18. The Problem of Consciousness
19. Summarizing Our Solutions (or ‘Coming Full Circle’)
20. Heading Off into the Sunset
Glossary of Concepts and Principles
Exercise #1–American Slang
Exercise #2–Accents in America
Course Readings
Basso (Practice #1)
‘To give up on words’: silence in Western Apache culture.
Bucholtz (Practice #2)
The whiteness of nerds: Superstandard English and racial markedness.
Schiffrin (Group #1a)
Jewish argument as sociability.
Kiesling (Group #1b)
Dude.
Hill (Group #1c)
Language, Race, and White Public Space.
Collins (Group #2a)
The Culture Wars and Shifts in Linguistic Capital: for Combining Political Economy and Cultural Analysis.
Lippi-Green (Group #2b)
Teaching children how to discriminate: what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf.
Kroskrity (Group #2c)
Arizona Tewa Kiva speech as a manifestation of linguistic ideology.
Reyes (Group #3a)
“Are you losing your culture?”: poetics, indexicality and Asian American identity.
Labov (Group #3b)
The logic of nonstandard English.
‘Difference’ (Group #3c)
This is a short video that will be shown in class.
Authors D. Marvin Glick, Myra Mergler Niemeier and Nancy C. Aiello are retired from Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun Campus.