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Chapter 7 Language, Culture and Society This chapter focuses on the discussion on the relationship between LANGUAGE, CULTURE and SOCIETY in the field of SOCIALLINGUISTICS. 7.1 Language and culture 7.1.1 How does language relate to culture Anthropological study of linguistics (Malinowski) Context of situation(Firth,the London School) Linguistic determinism Linguistic Relativity (Sapir-Whorf Hypotheses) Five types of cultural communication (Eugene Nida) 7.1.2 More about the Sapir- Whorf hypothesis Strong version: The original hypothesis emphasizes the decisive role of language as the shaper of our thinking patterns. Weak version: The modified theory suggests that there is a correlation between language, culture, and thought, but the cross-cultural differences thus produced in our ways of thinking are relative, rather than categorical. 7.1.3 Case studies 7.1.4 To which extent do we need culture in our linguistic study? 7.1.5 Culture in language teaching classroom 7.2 Language and society 7.2.1 How does language relate to society? Monistic view Dualistic view(1960s) 7.2.2 A situationally and socially variationist perspective The relationship between speakers’ social status and their phonological variations(William Lacov) Women register (Robin Lakoff) Linguistic sexism 7.2.3 What should we know more about sociolinguistics? -Sociolinguistic study of society -Sociolinguistic study of language 7.2.4 What implications can we get from sociolinguistics? 7.3 Summary Questions and Exercises What will you say to a statement like “one culture’s meat is another culture’s poison”? Why do we need to teach culture in our language classroom? Over the past two decades, hundreds of new words have rushed into the daily life of Chinese people.