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1 sty 2013 · What does culture do? and What should culture do? Using eudaimonia and the normative account of social goods developed so far as reference points, I examine symbolic, functionalist and...
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This account of culture as ‘interworked systems of...
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What does culture do? and What should culture do? Using eudaimonia and the normative account of social goods developed so far as reference points, I examine symbolic, functionalist and structu-rationalist approaches to culture in order to develop an account suitable for present analytical purposes.
Cultural transfer is one of the heuristic, methodological, and interpretative starting points used by the various humanities and social sciences, including histo- riography, to analyse connections, interlacement, and co-dependence in the present
1 sty 2014 · Building on Michel Espagne’s definition of cultural transfer and Stephen Greenblatt’s concept of cultural mobility, this paper aims to outline different modes of cultural transfer (or ...
The analysis of Cultural Transfer and Culture as Transfer has to take into account the dramatic situations of contact zones and border regimes a well as the conditions and dynamics of...
Definitions of culture abound and range from very complex to very simple. For example, a complex definition was proposed by Kroeber and Parsons (1958): “transmit-ted and created content and patterns of values, ideas, and other symbolic- meaningful systems as factors in the shaping of human behavior” (p. 583).
Cultural transfer of first language is the most influential element on cross-cultural communication. This article is a debate concerning the impact of cultural transfer on cross-cultural communication by means of foreign languages. Keywords: cross-cultural communication, foreign languages, cultural transfer.
