Language and Cultural Pattern

Cultural Linguistics: Cultural Conceptualizations and Language, Farzad Sharifian (2017), John Benjamins, ISBN 9789027204110

Cultural Identity among Iranian English Language Teachers

This survey investigated the cultural identity of Iranian English language teachers. Accordingly, a cultural identity model was proposed a priori, based on which a questionnaire was developed and piloted on 50 Iranian English language teachers (α = 0.87). The developed questionnaire was then administered to 636 male and female Iranian En...

A Pattern Language for Pattern Language Structure

This paper aims to help the writers of pattern languages build better pattern languages. It focuses not on the esthetics of pattern languages, but on their structure: how patterns work together to build a system. The paper assumes that a pattern language is a designed system and, therefore, theory about system design and evolution underlies the language. In particular, the process of symmetry b...

Cultural Evolution of Language

This chapter argues that an evolutionary cultural approach to language not only has already proven fruitful, but it probably holds the key to understand many puzzling aspects of language, its change and origins. The chapter begins by highlighting several still common misconceptions about language that might seem to call into question a cultural evolutionary approach. It explores the antiquity o...

culture, identity, and language education: home culture attachment, social/cultural capital, demographic factors and self-identity changes among iranian efl teachers

: در تحقیقی که پیش روی دارید ابتدا سعی شده است که نقش میزان بهره مندی مدرسان زبان انگلیسی از سرمایه های فرهنگی و اجتماعی در چارچوب نظریه بوردیو(1986) بر میزان وابستگی آن ها به فرهنگ خودی بررسی شود. لذا دو پرسشنامه به طورهمزمان بین 342 مدرس زبان انگلیسی در بیش از 25 موسسه ی خصوصی زبان انگلیسی در سطح شهر مشهد توزیع شد. رابطه ی بین میزان دسترسی به سرمایه فرهنگی و اجتماعی و وابستگی به فرهنگ خودی از...