Internet and Morality: Sociocultural Aspects

Assertiveness, Compliance, and Politeness: Pragmatic and Sociocultural Aspects of ‘Brazilian English’ and 'American English'

This paper showed the results of a qualitative investigation that looked into intracultural communication between Brazilian teachers and students of English, and intercultural communication between American teachers and Brazilian students of English. The aims were to identify and describe contextualization cues used by both Brazilian and American speakers of English, and to connect these cues w...

The Sociocultural Aspects of Successful Language Learning

2. What does research say about language and language learning? In addition to foreign language learners and educators, scholars from many disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, anthropology and etc. have been interested in and contributed to the field of foreign language acquisition. Let us start with some general review of the relevant issues and then devote the major part of our time t...

Sociocultural and epidemiological aspects of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique

BACKGROUND A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through 1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic swept over southern Africa in the late 1980s. The crumbling Mozambican health care system was wholly inadequate to support the need for new chronic disease services for people with the acquired immunodefi...

The Sociocultural Aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

In 2005 the Commission for Africa noted that ‘Tackling HIV and AIDS requires a holistic response that recognises the wider cultural and social context’ (p. 197). Cultural factors that range from beliefs and values regarding courtship, sexual networking, contraceptive use, perspectives on sexual orientation, explanatory models for disease and misfortune and norms for gender and marital relations...

The World Meets the Body: Sociocultural Aspects of Terminological Metaphor