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Preface; Section 1; Survey; 1. The relationship of language andculture; Nature, culture, language; Communities of language users;Imagined communities; Insiders/outsiders; Linguistic relativity; TheSapir - Whorf hypothesis; Summary; 2. Meaning as sign; The linguisticsign; The meaning of signs; Cultural encodings; Semantic cohesion; Thenon-arbitrary nature of signs; Symbols; Summary; 3. Meaning as action;Context of situation, context of culture; Structures of expectation;Contextualization cues, situated inferences; Pragmatic coherence; Theco-operative principle; Participants' roles and the co-construction ofculture; Summary; 4. Spoken language, oral culture; Speech and writing;Indicating status; Social positionings; Protecting face; Conversationalstyle; Narrative style; Summary; 5. Print language, literate culture;Written language, textual culture; Print and power; Social constructionof literacy; Text and discourse; Literacy event, prior text, point ofview; Genre; Summary; 6 Language and cultural identity; Culturalidentity; Cultural stereotypes; Language crossing as act of identity;Linguistic nationism; Standard language, cultural totem; Linguistic andcultural imperialism; Summary; 7. Current issues; Who is a nativespeaker?; Cultural authenticity; Cross-cultural, intercultural,multicultural; The politics of recognition; SECTION 2; Readings;SECTION 3; References; SECTION 4; Glossary