Reading these texts, it's easy to spot immediate differences in contextual factors, such as purpose, as well as similarities between some of the topics mentioned and the styles used when describing Paris. Text A, the 'Paris City Guide' is what it says, an informative guide highlighting the Narrators most loved features and attractions of Parisian culture and of the City itself. It offers a rather impersonal account of Paris, not using personal pronouns like 'I' when sharing information, making each opinion sound more factual and less like an actual opinion. This is completely different to Text B, which offers a more personal, wholly opinionated account from the first person point of view of Anna. Using many personal accounts of experiences had in Paris, and using them to build a picture of Paris to the audience.
One difference between the texts is the purpose. Text A, being a City Guide, aims to give tourists some ideas of what Paris has to offer, using subject-specific lexis such as 'Champs-Elysees' and 'arrondissements' to demonstrate the Narrators topic knowledge, and show to the audience that they can trust what the Narrator is telling them. Text B however, has an extremely less formal register, with use of fillers such as 'erm' and frequent breath pauses. This implies that the speech was not scripted, unlike Text A, and that the audience and purpose is somewhat different too. Text B, being unscripted, has much less smooth transitions between topics, the narrator says 'erm (1) and let's see (1)', before moving on to her next topic of 'travel' as if she is reading from a list of topics. This could show that her narration is for a piece of school work, where she has been tasked to talk about their favorite city, or just to show to people who want to visit Paris. The setting of Text A, from the use of music, to 'written text across screen' is shown to be a video, which makes use of visual and audio effects to move smoothly between topics, and also add a little French culture to the video, with use of 'French style' music.
Speaking about language and culture, one can say that through language people verbalize culture. ... English and Japanese are two languages which demonstrate that language and culture are closely related. ... Japanese language is a vivid example of how language and culture are interrelated. ... This is how culture affects language. Summing up, it is worth saying that culture depends on language, and vise-versa. ...
Prior to our visit to the GSIS museum, we have already heard about Juan Luna's "The Parisian Life". ... We went on to listen to the GSIS director's account of Juan Luna's life, his artwork, and most important of all, "The Parisian Life". ... It is the epitome of an essential part of our history and the core of the Filipino culture and heritage. ... This same amount of importance must also be given to "The Parisian Life". There is no doubt in our minds that its purchase would no longer be dubitable if people are able to see just how much of our culture and heritage that sing...
Culture and language rely a lot on each other. ... Societies may include a number of cultures and languages. ... My Grandparents are both from Spain, but my parents are both from Chicago, IL; my brothers and I were born and raised in Farmington, NM so growing up into our culture we always had my grandparents and parents teach us the language of our culture. ... " The growth of multiculturalism, for good or bad, takes the view that American speak many languages and have many different cultures. ... Every language, English, Spanish, French, Greece, has a different type of culture in which ...
These features are reflexivity, replacement, arbitrariness, productivity, cultural transmission and duality which are the six unique properties of human communication. ... Rousseau, who is a French philosopher, defined language as "language flows from emotion" (Bever and Montalbetti, 2002). ... Therefore, we can define reflexivity as using language in, talking, writing and signaling as well as putting in use the tools of language in language itself. ... Equally important, creativity is another property of human language. ... This shows that language is not learned by replication an...
If there was one language between all cultures the world of literature would open up allowing more opportunities available to all people, especially those people who live in small third world countries that speak a language that only they know. ... Even when text is translated, it is impossible to get the exact meaning as the original text. When texts are translated from language to language the accuracy of meaning decreases substantially and causes miscommunication and disagreement which would be avoided. ... There are many great aspects in every culture and some not so great. ... One of the...
Abstract As long as languages appear, there have also been cultures. ... Key words: Language, Culture, English Language Teaching (ELT) Culture and English Language Teaching Introduction It is an undeniable fact that to understand a language completely, it is essential to master not only the language knowledge including grammar, lexis and phonology but also certain features of culture. ... Methods While doing this research paper, because of limited time, secondary structure approach was pursued. 13 articles relating to the research questions of culture and ELT were selected for analysis. ... R...
A study of varied texts reveals that the journey to changes in perspective may be gradual or instantaneous, a significant event often prompting an epiphanic recognition of change. ... The father witnesses his son gradually distancing from both him and his culture as he grows older. Whilst his father refuses to assimilate with Australian culture, his son conforms to Australian society and its culture, forgetting "(his) first Polish word". ... An Australian-born Turnbull, thrown into the seductive yet paradox-filled milieu of modern-day Paris, is soon transformed to fit Parisian expectations. T...
Any language serves a dual function in a society, first as a means of communication and secondly as a carrier of culture. ... Through language people formulate a cultural identity and as Ngugi suggests "language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience of history"4. ... With colonization came the development of indigenous languages into written text however these were suppressed as the languages of power (be it English or French) were encouraged. Language as a carrier of culture was one of the tools used by the colonial forces to enforce cultural domination to ...
The choice of language plays a significant role in the play "No Sugar". There is an obvious contrast between the slang, harsh and uneducated language of Milly and Gran, and the polite and educated language of the sergeant. ... The passage is written very differently, with more educated language. ... In text three in the stimulus booklet provided, through a critical analysis, it clearly expresses the evolution of the relationship between the Europeans and Aborigines. ... This brings out a sense of the fusion of both cultures. ...
