The Notion of Culture in Linguistic Research

Abstract: Many works on intercultural communication from the field of linguistics share the assumption that influences of culture on social interaction will manifest in communicative exchanges—and conversely, that an academic's look at these exchanges will be a sufficient basis for an adequate description of what intercultural communication is supposed to be about. Linguistic theory itself lacking of places to integrate culture as a factor into its concepts, urges scholars to borrow operationalizations of culture from neighboring disciplines like e.g. different strands of psychology, sociology or anthropology. Approaches resulting from this transdisciplinary orientation as a consequence share very divergent assumptions on how, at what moment in a communicative process and with what effects culture influences social interaction. While many surveys on similar behalf distinguish between primordial and constructionist approaches, a closer look at different strands of empirical linguistic researc.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1242

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
The Notion of Culture in Linguistic Research ; volume:10 ; number:1 ; day:28 ; month:01 ; year:2009
Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 10, Heft 1 (28.01.2009)

Creator
Busch, Dominic

DOI
10.17169/fqs-10.1.1242
URN
urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0901508
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