Intercultural Communication: Teaching Vocabulary

TL;DR: The future of language in China is under threat, according to experts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of Indian cultural appropriation in the U.S. legal system and evaluate these claims vis-a-vis prevailing legal doctrine and offer a normative view of solutions.

TL;DR: The authors describes the development of linguistic ethnography in Britain over the last 5-15 years, and the U.K. Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF) has emerged from socio-and applied linguistics, bringing together a number of formative traditions (inter alia, Interactional Sociolinguistics, New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis).

TL;DR: In the study of culture, the patterning of perceptual worlds is a function not only of the specific culture but also of the relationship, activity, and emotions present in a given situation.

Abstract: Geert Hofstede’s legendary national culture research is critiqued. Crucial assumptions which underlie his claim to have uncovered the secrets of entire national cultures are described and challenged. The plausibility of systematically causal national cultures is questioned.

TL;DR: The authors showed that comprehenders are sensitive to the frequencies of compositional four-word phrases (e.g. don't have to worry) and that more frequent phrases are processed faster.

TL;DR: The authors provides concise and informative entries across the whole field of linguistics form phonetics to formal semantics and includes world-wide coverage of languages and language families, as well as language families.