Sitcoms and language and culture acquisition

Krsteva, Marija (2024) Sitcoms and language and culture acquisition. In: Intercultural Encounters: Global Perspectives, Local Contexts, University of Opole, Poland. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the role and place of the sitcoms in the process of language and culture acquisition. The sitcoms are genre that mainly uses humor for entertainment whole also containing real-life situations with realistic and everyday conversations, using an effective language for communication. The viewers, although not directly involved in the scenes, could easily be perceived as passive participants in those conversations, thus personally living the situations and adopting the language used by the actors. By drawing on Claire Kramsch’s (1998) idea that language expresses, embodies and symbolizes cultural reality and Sapir-Whorf’s hypothesis that language affects the thought process, i.e. the principle of linguistic relativity to illustrate the way in which language influences people’s thought and behavior, this paper illustrates the diverse and complex way in which sitcoms play a major role in foreign language and culture acquisition or the languaculture.
Key words: sitcoms, language acquisition, culture acquisition, cultural reality

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Marija Krsteva
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2024 09:04
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2024 09:04
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/34649

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