Aspects of language, such as accent, play a crucial role in the formation and categorization of one’s cultural identity. Recent work on accent emphasizes the role of accent in person perception and social categorization, demonstrating that accent also serves as a meaningful indicator of an ethnic category. In this article, we investigate whether the accent of an interaction partner, as a marker...

Scholars have primarily focused on how language represents categories. We move beyond this conception to develop a discursive perspective of market categorization focused on how categories are constructed through communicative exchanges. The discursive perspective points to three under-researched mechanisms of category evolution: (1) the interaction between market participants, (2) the power dy...

This paper focuses on the means by which City Hall of Rio Janeiro implemented a policy for preservation local cultural heritage and used legal instruments available to protection intangible heritage, notably from 2013, as creation new category: The Traditional Notable Economic Activities`s Book Registry. research is based debate about conception Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) an analytical ...

Project Description: Background & Purpose Exploring the Poles is a Barnard College First-Year Seminar. “First-Year Seminars focus on critical reading, writing, and speaking skills in the context of intellectual exploration and social bonding in a shared first-year experience.” They comprise introductory courses taught by faculty from different disciplines. Exploring the Poles is classified acco...

The objectification of the Russian and Kazakh concepts, identify significant national identity, which reflects the cultural and social interpersonal are discussed in this article. Keywords—Concept, national identity, linguistic objectification, the category of picture of the world, cognitive symptoms, linguistic objectification.