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Understanding Culture and Language in Society

Explore various aspects of culture, including norms, subcultures, stereotypes, and voice. Learn about diction, syntax, and tone in language expression with examples. Discover the power of connotation and denotation in word choice.

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Understanding Culture and Language in Society

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  1. UNIT 1 REVIEW

  2. CULTURE • What was our class’s working definition for culture? • What was our class’s working definition of cultural norms? • Give an example of a cultural norm embraced by the United States • What was our class’s working definition of subculture? • Name some subcultures you are a part of.

  3. Culture con’t • What is a stereotype? • What is ethnocentricm?

  4. HOW IS THE HANDSHAKE AN AMERICAN CULTURAL NORM?

  5. What subculture do you associate this image with?

  6. What is in a voice? • What is voice? • What are the components of voice? • Diction • Imagery • Syntax • Tone

  7. diction • DICTION IS WORD CHOICE • CONNOTATIVE MEANING OF WORD: WHAT THE WORD SUGGESTS; WHAT EMOTION YOU, SPECIFICALLY, ATTACH TO THE WORD • DENOTATIVE MEANING OF WORD: WHAT THE WORD LITERALLY MEANS

  8. CONNOTATION VS. DENOTATION • WORD: PRIEST • DENOTATIVE MEANING: THE HEAD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH • CONNOTATIVE MEANINGS: RELIGION, SACRED, HOLINESS, CORRUPTION, HYPOCRISY • WORD: BURKA • DENOTATIVE MEANING: A FULL BODY CLOAK WORN BY SOME MUSLIM WOMEN • CONNOTATIVE MEANINGS: MODESTY, IDEAL, PATRIARCHY, OPPRESSION, MYSTERY, BEAUTY • WHY ARE THE CONNOTATIVE MEANINGS OF THE WORDS SO DIVERSE?

  9. FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL DICTION • FORMAL DICTION IS THE LANGUAGE WE USE IN FORMAL ESSAYS, IN WRITING COMPOSTITIONS, AND IN ADDRESSING A HIGHLY EDUCATED AUDIENCE • INFORMAL DICTION IS THE LANGUAGE WE USE IN EVERYDAY CONVERSATION WITH OUR PEERS, AND IN ADDRESSING AN AUDIENCE THAT IS FAMILIAR OR SPECIFIC TO US (I.E., TO ENTERTAIN) • “FORMAL OR INFORMAL? • “If you love ice cream so much, then why don’t you just marry it?” • FORMAL OR INFORMAL? • “Hurston’s depiction of the independent female was viewed as misogynistic and derogatory by the very demographic she wished to elevate.”

  10. syntax • The arrangement of words in a sentence • Compound sentence: two independent clauses joined by a coordinator • Complex sentence: An independent clause followed by one or more dependent clauses • Periodic sentence: A complex sentence where the main independent clause comes last • What kind of sentence is this? • “I am going to Publix and then I will cook dinner.” • “Although I enjoy football, I would rather play for the school’s soccer team.” • Anaphora: The repetition of words or phrases in the beginnings of successive clauses.

  11. tone • What is tone? • What is a tone shift?

  12. What is the tone of this excerpt? Out of the huts of history’s shame\ I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.    I rise I rise    I rise.

  13. Good luck from one direction!

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