Language, Communication, and Culture: Exploring Identity and Mediated Communication, Slides of Communication

The relationship between language, communication, and culture, focusing on identity as performance and the impact of mediated communication. It prompts self-reflection on personal names, forced identities, and the evolving nature of language in collaborative platforms like wikipedia and tiktok. The document raises questions about power dynamics in language control and the stability of language in the internet age, encouraging critical thinking about linguistic complexity and cultural representation. It serves as a starting point for discussions on language, identity, and the influence of technology on communication. It also includes a link to an npr article about new words added to the merriam-webster dictionary.

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LANGUAGE,

COMMUNICATION,

AND CULTURE

Identity as Performance

“my story as self-identity”

Self-

reflection

Self-

reflection

A New Metaphor

  • What does it mean to be a language? - Living languages - https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/

1471518/merriam-webster-new-wor

ds

  • Linguistic complexity is not

representative of the complexity of the

culture it come from

  • There’s space in this glorious linguistic

web for you

Language and Mediated

Communication

How the collaborative platforms,

such as Wikipedia, tiktok, impact

our perspectives on “language”?

Think about the following things:

Who has the power to control

language? Before internet vs.

the current internet world

Is language stable? Why and

why not?