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Language and Text
2016. Vol. 3, no. 3, 86–95
https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2016030308
ISSN: 2312-2757 (online)

Work ethics through the lens of American and British linguocultures: dominant cultural values

 
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Abstract

The article throws light on the peculiarities language consciousness functions and the way it reflects values of a certain linguocultural community. In particular, the article reveals the specificity of the verbalization of work ethics in American and British linguocultures. The language material testifies to deeply rooted discrepancies in the evaluative worldview of the cultures under study. If American culture considers work ethics as an indispensable part of a person’s life, the attitude to work in British culture is more complicated and ambiguous.

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Keywords: linguoculture, language consciousness, language worldview, evaluative worldview, values, American culture, British culture.

Journal rubric: Intercultural Communication and Problems of Globalization: Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2016030308

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For citation: Ivanova, S.V. (2016). Work ethics through the lens of American and British linguocultures: dominant cultural values. Language and Text, 3(3), 86–95. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2016030308

© Ivanova S.V., 2016

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Svetlana V. Ivanova, Doctor of Philology, professor, Professor of the Department of the English Language in the sphere of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0127-9934, e-mail: svet_ivanova@mail.ru

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