Language

and
Culture:
Current
Issues
Natalia Herrera
Daniela Mosquera
Mariana Cardona

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 Who is a Native Speaker? 
e n a ti o n' s sta te
A citizen of th language is
rd
whose standa
that language

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 Characteristics
► Language skills
► Subconscious knowledge ► Creativity
of rules
► Intuitive grasp of
meanings
► Social-communicative
abilities

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 Cultural authenticity
It is focus in two
concepts

1. AUTHENTICITY

► unique
characteristics

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 TEN ESS
R OP RI A
2. A PP

► Appropriate of
a culture

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 CROSS- CULTURAL,
INTERCULTURAL,
MULTICULTURAL
► It refers to the
meeting of two
cultures or two
languages across
the political
Cross- cultural
boundaries of
nation- states.

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CULTURAL SHOCK

■It may take place

when (learners
with one nation,
one language)
crossing cultural
national
boundaries.

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Types
Types of
of Cultural
Cultural shock
shock

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 ► The term intercultural may also
refer to communication between
people from different ethnic, social,
gendered cultures within the
boundaries of the same national
language.

Betwe
en
me rican
r i can- A
• Working- class and upper- class people a n d Af
merican
i n ese- A
• Ch

t ero s exuals
nd he •
• Gays a Men an
d w om
an

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 Intercultural communication
► It refers to the dialogue
between minority
cultures and dominant Biculturalis
cultures, and are m
associated with issues of:
u a l is ► A state of having
Bili n g or inheriting two
m or more cultures
It is the phenomenon of or two or more
ethnic traditions.
speaking and understanding two
or more languages.

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 Multicultural

Societal sense Individual sense

► It indicates the ► It characterizes persons

coexistence of people who belong to various
from many different discourse communities,
backgrounds and and who therefore have
ethnicities, as the linguistic resources
“multicultural” and social strategies to
societies. affiliate and identify
with many different
cultures and ways to
using language.

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 The politics of recognition

► Individuals need to be
recognized both in their
individual and in their
social group identity.

Recognition
Recognition

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 National governments that promote multicultural and
multiracial harmony

rent
iffe
►
D liefs
Be

► Chinese Taoist or Buddhists

► Indian Hindus
► Muslims or Sikhs
► Islamic Malays

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Maintain cultural and ethnic separatism despite the strong claim to national Singaporean identity
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Communicative practices
Modern Urb
s
Communitie Networks of
Relationships   

► Family
► School
► Workplace
► Professional
organization
► Church

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