What is Worldview

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What is

Worldview?

Orville Boyd Jenkins March 2004Copyright © 2004 Orville Boyd Jenkins



What is Worldview?

What is Worldview?

Worldview may be described as The

shared sense of reality of a group of

people The basis of culture is Shared Significant

Experiences

Common experiences of life lead to acommunal understanding of the world



What is Worldview?

What is Worldview?

The Shared Sense of Reality is aWorldview – or Cogni tive Culture

Worldview exists only in the head of thosewho share it

It IS reality to them – that community’sreality

They shape their common life according tohow they view reality in that worldview



What is Worldview?

What is Worldview?

Worldview (Cognitive Culture) involves

– Values, Preferences, Beliefs, Right and Wrong

– The unseen world, death, afterlife – What higher spirit powers exist, God, gods

– Self-identity - Significant shared experiences

– Expectations, Possibilities



What is Worldview?

What is Worldview?

Shared Experiences: Previous Experiences

affect Expectations

Language is a primary shared significantexperience

Language is integrally related to Worldview


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What is Worldview?

Language is integrally related to Thought-

formation

– Some languages are better suited for somethoughts – those thoughts related to the

worldview to which that language is related

Thus the Hidden Mental World showsthrough in the language



What is Worldview?

The real cognitive aspect of language is in

our use of the language to think

The Cognitive Culture, woven into thefabric of the language, is what we call

Worldview

Worldview in Language: Language andThought

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What is Worldview?

How Society is Organized is an expressionof Worldview (Cognitive Culture)

The Cognitive Culture determines patternsof relationship, decision-making,interdependence, obligation, restitution

Cognitive Culture is the basis for:

– Social Role Development

– Social Roles and Obligations

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What is Worldview?

Social Interaction Patterns are the Social

Culture

The Cognitive Culture, or World View, isthe basis of the Social Culture

Language is also part of the Social Culture

Language is a social medium, and thus a social skill



What is Worldview?

Language is a medium of interaction in social relationships

Thus Language is critical in both Cognitive Culture (Worldview) and Social Culture

Worldview is thus a critical component ofthe Ethnic Identity

Worldview in Language: Identity andRelationship

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What is Worldview?

The complex factors in “Culture” (Worldview) are

tied up in language

Thus our concept of Ethnolinguistic peoples.Language is a primary characteristic of human

identity and culture.

Worldview thus exists in the mental concepts dealt

with in the mother tongue

Deepest concepts and decision-making processes



What is Worldview?

This Shared Sense of Reality is at the core

of Ethnic Identity

Access through – Sharing significant experiences within the

group (culture learning and adaptation)

– Language expressions and formats revealworldview concepts



What is Worldview?

The shared sense of reali ty of a group of

people

Unseen, in the heads of the members of thatcommunity



What is Worldview?

Accessible through

– clues in language, social culture,

– cultural informants,

– Acculturation experiences living with the

people

– formal research from other researchers(vicarious experience of the culture)



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Worldview Perspectives -- A Short Course

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Worldview?

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