Making Accreditation with English in Daily Conversations
Since language is an integral part of a culture, inspecting linguistic expressions can unveil the hidden cultural memes of a society, conceptualized as cultuling (culture in language) analysis. The present study examined the cultuling of ‘making accreditation with English’ used by Persian native spe...
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University of Isfahan
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| author | Reza Pishghadam Shima Ebrahimi Saba Hasanzadeh Haniyeh Jajarmi |
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| description | Since language is an integral part of a culture, inspecting linguistic expressions can unveil the hidden cultural memes of a society, conceptualized as cultuling (culture in language) analysis. The present study examined the cultuling of ‘making accreditation with English’ used by Persian native speakers from the upper, middle, and lower social classes. To this end, 623 pieces of natural utterances, embracing this cultuling, were extracted from people's conversations in public and private places and from Iranian movies. Then, 279 utterances were analyzed from linguistic, cultural, and psychological perspectives based on the cultuling analysis (CLA) model. Additionally, more data were acquired through semi-structured interviews with 198 participants aged 19 to 54. The results of the study revealed that Iranians use English for various purposes in their conversations, including accreditation, power, education, superior identity, and higher social class in public/ private and formal/ informal contexts. Moreover, the analysis of Iranians’ different reactions to hearing English words in conversations manifested their hidden cultural patterns, including indirectness, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, high context, collectivism, low trust, and overstating |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8eea15a4b0d4aef8f6d680051af8f8f2022-12-22T04:30:03ZengUniversity of IsfahanApplied Research on English Language2252-01982322-53432022-07-011139512010.22108/are.2022.132847.186926866Making Accreditation with English in Daily ConversationsReza Pishghadam0Shima Ebrahimi1Saba Hasanzadeh2Haniyeh Jajarmi3Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, IranAssistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, IranPh.D. Candidate, Department of English, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, IranAssistant Professor of TEFL, Bahar Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, IranSince language is an integral part of a culture, inspecting linguistic expressions can unveil the hidden cultural memes of a society, conceptualized as cultuling (culture in language) analysis. The present study examined the cultuling of ‘making accreditation with English’ used by Persian native speakers from the upper, middle, and lower social classes. To this end, 623 pieces of natural utterances, embracing this cultuling, were extracted from people's conversations in public and private places and from Iranian movies. Then, 279 utterances were analyzed from linguistic, cultural, and psychological perspectives based on the cultuling analysis (CLA) model. Additionally, more data were acquired through semi-structured interviews with 198 participants aged 19 to 54. The results of the study revealed that Iranians use English for various purposes in their conversations, including accreditation, power, education, superior identity, and higher social class in public/ private and formal/ informal contexts. Moreover, the analysis of Iranians’ different reactions to hearing English words in conversations manifested their hidden cultural patterns, including indirectness, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, high context, collectivism, low trust, and overstatinghttps://are.ui.ac.ir/article_26866_33e387ed12c1db02ac20856fb0b8e77b.pdfculturecultural patternscultulingaccreditation |
| spellingShingle | Reza Pishghadam Shima Ebrahimi Saba Hasanzadeh Haniyeh Jajarmi Making Accreditation with English in Daily Conversations Applied Research on English Language culture cultural patterns cultuling accreditation |
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| title_full | Making Accreditation with English in Daily Conversations |
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| title_short | Making Accreditation with English in Daily Conversations |
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