UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO

Language and culture

imagined communitiesinsiders/outsiders

By: Andrés Ordoñez dennis parra

Imagined communities

The sociocultural context of the language is the combination of two layers: social and historical.

Sociocultural context of language refers that language is linked to society and culture

IMAGINED COMMUNITIES

3 Layers of culture: The social, The

Historical and The

imagination.

Communities are characterized by

facts and artifacts, common dreams,

fulfilled and unfulfilled

imaginings.

These imaginings are

mediated through the language.

What is culture ?

In short culture is the membership in a community that shares the same space, common social space and historical.

Insiders/outsiders

Insider

Someone whose

behaviours has been acquired

His or her body feels ‘at home’

someone who perceives that this collective

order of things is their own

Outsider

Someone whose mental dispositions

have evolved somewhere

else 

He or she Feels culturally ‘out

of place’

Someone who doesn’t

experience either socio-cultural or political

belonging. 

Outsiders are the

nonmembers

Outsider

They don’t fit in with what is considered normal.

Others in the group ignore or deny- they are outsiders and

insiders.

It depends where you are standing and what you want

They don’t belong in a

group