Culture, language, text : culture studies within the study of English as a foreign language

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS = 9
• INTRODUCTION = 10
• Main Aims and Intended Audience = 10
• Culture as a Theoretical Nucleus for Interdisciplinarity = 11
• Notes = 14
• CHAPTER 1: THE TERM USED TO BE <>: CULTURE STUDIES AS A LAISSEZ-FAIRE DISCIPLINE = 15
• Notes = 18
• CHAPTER 2: A NATIVE MODEL: CULTURE STUDIES AS AN AMERICAN STUDIES DISCIPLINE = 19
• The Myth-and-Symbol School = 20
• Multidisciplinary vs. Interdisciplinary American Studies = 21
• Towards an American Culture Studies = 25
• Notes = 28
• CHAPTER 3: THE STUDY OF DOMINANT ASSUMPTIONS AND VALUES: CULTURE STUDIES AS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCIPLINE = 31
• Culture Conceived as Belief Systems = 32
• Conceptions of Culture: Unity vs. Diversity = 33
• Definition of the Discipline of Culture Studies = 37
• A Culture Studies Analysis of a Text = 40
• Notes = 43
• CHAPTER 4: CULTURE AND LANGUAGE: CULTURE STUDIES AS A LINGUISTICS DISCIPLINE = 46
• Contextual Linguistic Theories = 47
• Towards a Cultural Syntactics and Morphology = 49
• Towards a Cultural Pragmatics and Semantics = 55
• Towards a Cultural Discourse Analysis = 58
• Notes = 61
• CHAPTER 5: THE <> OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE: CULTURE STUDIES AS A LITERARY-ORIENTED DISCIPLINE = 62
• "Literary" vs. "Ordinary" Language = 62
• Cultural Simile, Metaphor, Symbol = 65
• Cultural Narrative = 68
• Three Cultural Texts Analyzed in Literary Terms = 69
• Notes = 76
• CHAPTER 6: CULTURE, HISTORY, AND INTERPRETATION: CULTURE STUDIES AS A HISTORICAL DISCIPLINE = 78
• Explanation vs. Interpretation = 78
• Referentiality vs. Figurativeness = 80
• "Fact" vs. "Fiction" = 82
• The Particular vs. the Representative = 86
• Notes = 91
• CHAPTER 7: CULTURE AND TEXT: CULTURE STUDIES AS A PHILOLOGICAL DISCIPLINE = 93
• The Nature of Philology = 93
• A Philological Analysis of a Text = 94
• Some Reservations About Cultural Generalizations = 98
• Notes = 100
• CHAPTER 8: CULTURE AND THE CLASSROOM: CULTURE STUDIES AS A DIDACTIC DISCIPLINE = 101
• Four Pitfalls of the Teaching of Culture Studies = 102
• The Interrelations of Culture, Language, and Literature = 108
• The Use of Text in Teaching = 110
• The Three-Step Methodology of Culture Studies Teaching = 112
• A Culture Studies Syllabus Exemplified = 115
• The Teaching of Two Topics Exemplified = 118
• Notes = 124
• CHAPTER 9: THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEXTUAL ANALYSIS-CULTURE STUDIES AS A RESEARCH DISCIPLINE = 125
• "Discipline" vs. "Area of Study": The Issue of "Scientificness" = 126
• An Interdisciplinary Research Competence = 127
• Definition of Culture Studies as a Research Discipline = 130
• Culture Studies Research Exemplified = 131
• Notes = 135
• CHAPTER 10: OVERARCHING SYNTHESIS: THE STUDY OF ENGLISH AS A WHOLE = 136
• Some Modest Didactic Proposals = 136
• The Need for a Research Commitment to Interdisciplinarity = 137
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: WORKS CITED = 141