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Download full textChan, Carol Y. M. – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This paper presents the theory of prototype semantics as a useful approach to understanding the relationship between language and culture in second-language texts as it relates word-meaning to social and cultural models. Second-language writing in English may use the same linguistic structures as first-language texts, but the significance of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Coherence, Cultural Awareness, Discourse Analysis
Iwamoto, Noriko – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1995
An analysis of war reporting in Japan during World War II examines, from a semantico-syntactic perspective, how language is used to systematize, transform, and sometimes mask reality. In wartime, a strong form of solidarity and control is essential as a device for unification and for maintaining popular morale. The approach is based in the notion…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar
