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Multimedial aspects and registers of literatures and cultures in English -…
Multimedial aspects and registers of literatures and cultures in English
Meanings of culture
(agriculture) nature+humanity
humanity- nature: From the 18th century on humanity gradually breaks away from culture.
Culture: From the mid-19th century onwards it means literature and art.
High vs low culture: dominant-elite <-> folk-mass-sub-culture.
specific national cultures, generalized qualities: Eg. England- cream teas, Australia- the outback, Sydney Opera House etc.
universal or global culture: high art <-> mass media (aesthetic object or commodities)
Print and schreen cultures
Not fixed, we are shifting towards screen cultures.
Print culture: all forms of printed texts and other printed forms of communication.
Screen culture: redefined our relationship with real world.
high culture, popular culture and classical culture
High culture: consumption pattern, mannerism, leisure activities, tastes and preferences of the elite of a society.
Popular culture: set of the practices, beleives that are dominant in a society.
cultural products such as music, art, literature, fashion, dance, film, cyberculture, TV and radio that are consumed by the majority of a society.
classical culture: the culture of classical antiquity.
Ancient Greek and roman culture known as the Greco-Roman world, from the 8th century BC to the 6th century AD.
Cultural elitism and popularism:
Cultural popularism: True people are the native members of a nation-state, apart from outsiders.
tends to emphasize religious traditionalism, law, order and painting migrants as enemies.
Media
Words get around in different varieties of media: ears, eyes, on the lips, radio, TV, Newspapers etc.
English is an increasingly multimedia resource.
Derived from the latin plural 'medium' meaning 'between' 'middle'
Modes of communication which enable people to communicate at a distance
Refers to institutions that own and control these technologies
simply: media is the main means of mass communicaiton.
Medium: a method or way of expressing sth.: They told the story through the medium of dance.
Multimedia: uses more than one medium of communication or expression.
Mediation: where one person handles and passes on perceptions or information.
medium and mediator can be neutral, impartial, objective.
Registers in linguistics
Register refers to the level of formality with which you speak or language used by a group of people who have a similar job or ineterest.
Variation in formality means stylistic variation.
determined by occasion, context, purpose, audience.
5 registers of a lg: high formal, formal, neutral, informal and vulgar.
Registers of culture
High culture
court, elite or doominant culture
originally aristocratic, associated with power and knowledge
Low culture
popular, folk, mass or sub-culture.
register refers to the different layers of community and user groups of lg in a given society.
Register types in writing
Familiar
Among people knowing each other well.
lack of grammar correctness, spelling, punctuation, contains slang and jargon.
informal
Journalism, rarely academic wiritng
Conversational tone, colloquial lg, more attention paid to grammar.
Formal
mostly used in academic writing
neither colloquial nor personal
Strong opinion can be expressed objectively, doesn't break the rules of grammar,
Ceremonial
E.g. historical speeches