Language and Culture: Can we shape what the future holds?

Dahmardeh, Mahdi; Parsazadeh, Hossein

doi:10.5840/cultura201512221

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“…The same understanding is to a large extent a part of Gary Weaver's (1986) metaphor of culture as an iceberg whose surface structure above societal sea level comprises items such as food, dress, music, literature, language and other tangible manifestations of culture, while its deep structure, comprising items such as rules of conduct, attitudes or relationships, lies below the surface. Weaver's model has since been adopted and modified by other scholars (e.g., Grant and Sleeter 2007;Dahmardeh and Parsazadeh 2015;Moule and Diller 2019). From the point of view of the present study, Wagner's model allows us to specify the part of culture that was the focus of the empirical part of our study: the surface structure of culture.…”

Section: Cultural Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Awareness among First-Year Undergraduate Students of English and Translation

Zupan

Gadpaille

2020

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The article presents the results of a culture quiz that was administered among undergraduate students of English and Translation at the University of Maribor in 2019. Comprising twenty items from five domains of culture that the respondents had to identify, the results of the quiz showed that that the students were most familiar with items from the domains of technology and its closely related vocabulary, followed by sports, politics and high culture (drama, literature, ballet). The study also suggested some differences based on respondents’ gender and their high school grade performance in English. The results partly overlap with the results of a similar study from 2007, corroborating that popular culture remains the most recognizable cultural domain among the surveyed students.

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Section: Cultural Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%