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Context and Culture
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Systematizing Context:
Discourse Analysis
Systematic
description of context is
difficult and the meaning of language in
context is beyond the reach of
systematic enquiry.
To make things easier applied
linguistics has developed Discourse
Analysis.
Discourse analysis is the study how
stretches of language in context are
perceived as meaningful and unified by
their users.
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Paralanguage
People
Paralanguage
is important to
develop effective communication
in media training, speech
therapy, and language teaching.
Does writing have paralanguage?
New technologies make the
paralanguage of writing more
significant.
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Pragmatics
Pragmatics
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Genre
Meaning
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Culture
Successful
interpretation of
language in context depends
upon the degree of participants
shared conventions and
procedures including
paralanguage, pragmatics and
genre.
These conventions and
procedures with values and
beliefs which lie behind them are
elements of cultural knowledge.
Cross-cultural
communication which
takes place between members of
different national or ethnic communities
is likely to be involved in every area of
applied linguistic activity.
Examples include generations, social
classes and the two sexes.
Communication and the problems which
surround it , and therefore applied
linguistics itself, is in many ways an
inherently cross-cultural phenomenon.
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