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Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Language and Culture

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Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Language and Culture

  • Categories Languages
  • Duration 21h
  • Total Enrolled 0
  • Last Update April 15, 2024

About Course

University of Leeds

Description

Examine the relationship between language, nationality and cultural identity

On this course you will analyse why language is a social construction and examine how it relates to cultural identity.

You will start by exploring what language is, how it relates to the way we think and how it is shaped by the culture it originates from. You’ll learn how language is used and explore cases of intercultural communication. You will examine the difficulties of translation and how politeness is expressed across cultures. Finally, you’ll learn about the controversial issue of language loss and examine the reasons that cause it and its implications for cultural identity.

Who will you learn with?

Bethan Davies

Bethan Davies

Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Leeds. My research interests are in linguistic politeness and also critical discourse analysis (language and power).

 

 

Who developed the course?

University of Leeds

University of Leeds

As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.

 

 

What Will I Learn?

  • Investigate how languages shape cultural identity both within and across political borders.
  • Assess the extent to which language both supports and inhibits the sharing of ideas between cultures.
  • Debate the ways in which language can shape and control how we think.
  • Explore the relationship between language, culture and politeness.
  • Reflect on the association between language and cultural identity and the effects of language loss and endangerment on communities.
  • Discuss the notion that translation is as much a cultural process as a linguistic one.

Topics for this course

16 Lessons21h

Welcome?

Welcome to Introduction to Cultural Studies: Language and Culture. This course explores the relationships between language, culture and identity, and how languages both connect and separate us from different groups of people.
Welcome to the course ARTICLE
Introduction from Bethan VIDEO (02:08)00:02:08

Language, nation, and cultural identity?

In this activity, you explore the relationship between language, nation and cultural identity, and investigate how language maps can differ from their political equivalents.

Language and thought?

In this activity, you explore the relationship between language and the way we think. You consider how words relate to concepts, and how some concepts might be ‘untranslatable’ across languages.

Do languages affect the way you think??

In this activity, you consider the extent to which language might limit and shape what we are able to articulate and think.

Summary?

In this activity, you will see a summary of what you have learnt, including a glossary.
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Material Includes

  • Official Certificate

Tags

Bethan Davies University of Leeds

Target Audience

  • The course is for anyone with an interest in the relationship between language and culture, you don’t need any previous experience.
  • This course is also ideal if you are working with languages, you are preparing to move to a different country for work or study or you work with groups of people from different cultures to yours. By completing all aspects of the course you will have achieved 14 hours of CPD time.