Week - 1 |
Fundamental aspects of culture and language |
Week - 2 |
Sources and components of culture |
Week - 3 |
Written and spoken culture; material and nonmaterial culture |
Week - 4 |
Culture from individual and social angles; culture as a jointer and separator |
Week - 5 |
Acculturation; semi-domestication; cultural spread and rapport |
Week - 6 |
Culture from cognitive, symbolic and structuralism/cognitive angles |
Week - 7 |
Language as a symbolic system; language from individual angle and language acquisition |
Week - 8 |
The effect of language on human cognition; the relationship among culture, language, cognition, and reality |
Week - 9 |
The function of language to transmit knowledge and culture and to communicate social relations |
Week - 10 |
The development and transmission of language and culture |
Week - 11 |
National identity and language |
Week - 12 |
The dynamics of changes in language and culture |
Week - 13 |
The discussions on the interactions of cultural and linguistic changes |
Week - 14 |
National cultures, globalization, multilingualism and multiculturalism |