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CULTURAL MEANING IN A

SECOND LANGUAGE TEXT.Carol Y and M. Chan

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Los signos culturales noson entidades inmutables,

sino que evolucionan

constantemente

El signo es el lugar de

encuentro de los contenidosculturales, los cuales cuando

se actualizan, se alteran.

El signo adquiere un

significado especfico de

acuerdo a unascircunstancias subjetivas e

ideolgicas.

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LENGUA Y CULTURA

la lengua es parte de la cultura.

la lengua expresa diferentes puntos de

vista.

la s diferencias culturales estan ligadas apresupuestos bsicos acerca de la

naturaleza del mundo.

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CULTURE

shared presuppositions about the

world(1987)

shared knowledge that includes factual

knowledge factual knowledge about theworld , as well as assumptions which do

not correspond to reality or in only

varying degrees

Role of culture and cognition in meaning

construction.

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MODELOS COGNITIVOS IDEALIZADOS

Madre

NatalGentico

Genalgico

CrianzaY

Educacin

LAKOFFFILLMORE

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STEREOTYPES

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WHITE TIGERS

THE WOMAN WARRIORS: MEMORIES OF A

GIRLHOOD AMONG GHOSTMAXIME HONG KINGSTON (1976)

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ANALYSIS OF CHINESE SAYINGS

Oh, come now. Everyone takes

the girls when he can. The

families are glad to be rid ofthem. Girls are maggots in the

rice. It is more profitable to

raise geese than daughter. Hequoted me the saying I hate

(Kingston 1976).

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stop that crying my mother would yell.

Im going to hit you if you dont stop.Bad girl! Stop!.

Im not a bad girl I would scream. Im

not a bad girl. I might as well have said.

Im not a bad girl. (Kingston 1976).

Bad girl, my mnother yelled, and

sometimes that made me gloat ratherthan cry. Isnt a bad girl almost a boy?

(Kingston 1976)

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When one of my parents os the emigrant

villagers said,feeding girls is feedingcowbirds, I would trash on the floor and

scream so hard I couldnt talk. I couldnt stop.

Whats the matter with her?

Idont know. Bad I guess. You know how girlsare. theres no profit in raising girls. Better to

rise gees than girls

I would hit her if she were mine. But then

theres no use wasting all that discipline on agil. When you raise girls , youre raising

children for strangers. (Kingston 1976)

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CONCLUSIONES

1.G

irls are maggots in the rice.2. It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.

3. Theres no profit in raising girls. better to raise geese than

daugthers.

4. Feeding girls is feeding cowbirds .

5. When you raise girls, you are raising children for strangers.

6. Trere is an outward tendency in females.

7. When fishing for treasures in the flood,be careful not to pull in

girls.