Cultural Reader

The concept of prejudice ( Vorurteil ) occupies a central and provocative place in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s  philosophical hermeneutics . In ev...

The concept of effective-history ( Wirkungsgeschichte ) is one of Gadamer’s most original contributions to hermeneutics. It designates the ...

Bakhtin's concepts of unfinalizability, answerability, and hybridity are part of his thought about Dialogism , and offer profound insigh...

Engaging the Senses: Beyond Words and Images In the field of anthropology, a discipline traditionally rooted in written texts and verbal co...

Definition of Proprietary Conditions Proprietary conditions refer to the specific context in which a particular linguistic expression is us...

The Cooperative Principle is a central concept in linguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis that explains how people use language to co...

Whether we are aware of it or not, communication is an integral part of our daily lives. From simple conversations with our friends and fami...

Anthropologist  Clifford Geertz  saw culture as a "text" and the world as a "web of meaning". According to Geertz, cultu...

Interpretive anthropology is an approach to studying culture that emphasizes the importance of understanding the symbolic meanings that peop...

Symbolic or symbolic anthropology is a subfield in cultural anthropology that focuses on the analysis of symbols and their interpretation in...

Conversational implicature is a concept in pragmatics, which refers to the meaning that is implied by a speaker's utterance, rather than...

In linguistics, pragmatics and speech act theory , propositional content is defined as the meaning or message that is conveyed by a sentence...

Definition: Compositionality of language is a fundamental principle of linguistics that states that the meaning of a complex expression can...

The sociological concept of cultural capital was coined and popularized by Pierre Bourdieu. It can be best explained and summarized as the a...

Simply explained, culture industry is a term used by social thinkers Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to describe how popular culture in ...

Absurdism is a philosophical position that argues that life is essentially meaningless, that it is impossible to rationally explain why life...

In philosophical phenomeoloyg, "facticity" is the character of   "factuality" and "contingency" of exsitence. ...

Alterity and Otherness are concepts used in various ways by different branches of philosophy. In phenomenology, alterity and otherness serve...

Husserl is famous for his phenomenological moto of a "return to things themselves", but what does he mean by "thing"? ...

A "Conceptual Character" or "Conceptual Personae" is a notion developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their co...