Sumários

Definindo Cultura

8 Outubro 2024, 17:00 • Filomena Maria Confraria Viana Guarda

O conceito de Cultura para as ciências sociais. Reflexão sobre o significado dos seguintes conceitos: valores culturais, crenças e normas; cultura colectivista e cultura individualista, marcas culturais.

Leitura comentada de excertos do texto "A grande Migração" (1992) de Hans Magnus Enzensberger: migração e integração; egoísmo colectivo e ódio ao estrangeiro.

Diversidade cultural e multiculturalismo: introdução

8 Outubro 2024, 11:00 • Mariana Vinagre Liz

A questão da diversidade cultural na Europa e no contexto do mundo globalizado estudado nesta unidade curricular.

O multiculturalismo enquanto conceito operativo: aplicação política e desafios. Do multiculturalismo ao interculturalismo.
Discussão do texto de Arjun Appadurai, de leitura obrigatória para esta semana.

O conceito de cultura

8 Outubro 2024, 08:00 • Jessica Falconi

Etimologia da palavra cultura e transformações do seu significado. Várias definições de cultura. A cultura nos Estudos culturais. Reflexão e debate sobre a relação com a cultura. 

The Sapir and Whorf Hypothesis

7 Outubro 2024, 09:30 • Zuzanna Zarebska

The strong SWH version: languages are deterministic of how we think and perceive the world

1.Descriptions of colour in language: Different cultures may visually perceive colors in different ways according to how the colours are described by the words in their language.
2.Constructions of gender in language: Many languages are “gendered”, creating word associations that pertain to the roles of men or women in society.
3.Perceptions of time in language: Depending upon how the tenses are structured in a language, it may dictate how the people that speak that language perceive the concept of time.
4.Categorization in language: The ways concepts and items in a given culture are categorized (and what words are assigned to them) can affect the speaker’s perception of the world around them.
5.Politeness is encoded in language: Levels of politeness in a language and the pronoun combinations to express these levels differ between languages. How languages express politeness with words can dictate how they perceive the world around them.
6.Values are engrained in language: Each country and culturehave beliefs and values as a direct result of the language ituses.

The weak SWH version: languages influence how we think and what decision we make in our everyday life

Even comparatively simple acts of perception are very much more at the mercy of the social patterns.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language of our community predisposes certain choices of interpretation.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. 

The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached.

We have argued that viewing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in these terms has the potential to resolve some of the controversy and tension surrounding it. One source of tension is the question of universality: on at least some readings, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is incompatible with the important and widely-held assumption of a universal foundation for cognition. 

Uncertainty can operate as a cognitive control knob, moving from situations in which there is no effect of language-specific categories.

Algumas notas sobre a história dos estudos na área da Comunicação Intercultural: autores e obras de referência - alguns aspetos da obra de Edward T. Hall.

4 Outubro 2024, 11:00 • Catarina Isabel Sousa Gaspar

Algumas notas sobre a história dos estudos na área da Comunicação Intercultural: autores e obras de referência - alguns aspetos da obra de Edward T. Hall.