Teaching and Researching Language and Culture [Paperback]

Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can provide interesting and useful insights into the nature of language acquisition and expression. In this volume, Joan Kelly Hall gives a perspective on the nature of language and culture looking at how the use of language in real-world situations helps us understand how language is used to construct our social and cultural worlds.The conceptual maps on the nature of language, culture and learning provided in this text help orient readers to some current theoretical and practical activities taking place in applied linguistics. They also help them begin to chart their own explorations in the teaching and researching of language and culture.

INTRODUCTION

 

SECTION 1 DEFINING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 

Chapter One  A sociocultural perspective on language and culture

1.1  Introduction 

1.2  Language as sociocultural resource  

   1.2.1  Dialogue as the essence of language use

1.2.2  Single- and double-voiced utterances

1.3  Culture as sociocultural practice

1.4  Linguistic relativity

1.5 A socially constituted linguistics

1.5.1  A socially constituted approach to the study of language and culture

1.5.2  The recent turn in studies of communicative activities

1.5.3  From linguistic relativity to sociolinguistic relativity

1.6  Systemic functional linguistics

1.7  Summary

Further reading

 

Chapter Two     Language and identity

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