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    ACTIVITIES

    1. Take four different English proper nouns (other man”). Try to compare it with slang that is pop-
    than someone’s name) and use online translation ular now.
    dictionaries to translate each noun into five dif-
    4. Working with someone from another culture whose
    ferent languages. Do some of the translated nouns
    second language is English, compile a list of animals,
    have a resemblance to the English nouns? If so,
    then are common to both of you then compare the
    can you think of a possible reason?
    sounds that each of you hears from those animals.
    2. Try to find someone who is from a culture that
    5. Meet with one or two non-native English speakers
    uses an indirect communication style and who uses
    to identify the kinship terms they use in their family
    English as a second language. Ask that person how
    (e.g., mother, brother, etc.). Do they use the same
    his or her native tongue is different from English
    terms when referring directly to a family member
    when using language in an indirect manner.
    and in a third person situation? Do they have kin-
    3. Talk with two or three people over sixty years of ship terms that vary with age differences? What
    age and ask them for some examples of the slang cultural values do you think their terms reflect?
    they used in their younger days (e.g., “groovy,

    DISCUSSION IDEAS
    1. In a small group, discuss what images come to 3. Discuss different ways that language differences
    mind when you hear different types of accents. Try could influence an intercultural marriage.
    to decide why you form those images.
    4. Some countries have an official language (or lan-
    2. Some scholars think the world is moving toward an guages), but others do not. What are the advantages
    “oligarchy” of languages from the major economic and disadvantages of a country having an official
    powers. Do you think this would be a good or bad language? Should the United States have an official
    occurrence? Why? What will happen to minority language? Why?
    languages, and what will be the result?

    242 Chapter 6 Language and Culture: The Essential Partnership

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