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Well, in this ocasion I decided to share with you my first evaluation in the subject English V. I hope you enjoy it. Greetings.
Well, in this ocasion I decided to share with you my first evaluation in the subject English V. I hope you enjoy it. Greetings.
Acculturation
African traits were replaced or modified by European traits. Almost all African traits have been influenced by European culture, especially in the cities.
The people in the cities have been most affected by modernization in Kenya.
In 1886, Kenya came under the control of the British. Kenya was ruled by the British for almost 80 years. British laws became the law of Kenya. English became the official language. The schools that were start were taught in English.
Contact with the British brought many changes to African culture. This contact with the British is an example of innovations coming from outside the culture. This kind of innovation is called acculturation, because Africans and British came into direct contact. Acculturation is the change that takes place in a culture over a period of time as a result of contact between different cultures.
In Kenya, there were European settlers and British officials. Kenyans came into contact with Europeans in government work in factories, and on the farms. Many new traits came to Kenya through acculturation.
Why have Africans wanted to change? If you can drive a car to work, would you want to walk? If you can have a refrigerator, would you want to cool your meat in spring? If you can have a pair of shoes, would you want to always go barefooted? People everywhere want to live better.
The problem, sometimes, is that people from other cultures use to impose its political power to subdue acculturated people to avoid they express their ideas openly and freely. Living better must be related to making and having more things. People all over the world want to have enough food to eat, enough clothes to wear, comfortable houses to live, and be treated as human beings. Africans are no different from other people. They want many of the same things other people want.
The direction of acculturation was largely one way: European traits replaced or changed African traits, but African traits had little impact on European. The new traits have helped in the modernization of Kenya. Modernization in Kenya has resulted in the replacement of African traits by European traits.
Acculturation has been stronger in the urban areas. Here the three major forces, nationalism, urbanization, and industrialization, have affected more people for the longest length of time.
(Written by Elmer Clauson and Marion Rice in Discourse Analysis: Strategies for evaluating the written text by Marbella Delgado,2003)
The people in the cities have been most affected by modernization in Kenya.
In 1886, Kenya came under the control of the British. Kenya was ruled by the British for almost 80 years. British laws became the law of Kenya. English became the official language. The schools that were start were taught in English.
Contact with the British brought many changes to African culture. This contact with the British is an example of innovations coming from outside the culture. This kind of innovation is called acculturation, because Africans and British came into direct contact. Acculturation is the change that takes place in a culture over a period of time as a result of contact between different cultures.
In Kenya, there were European settlers and British officials. Kenyans came into contact with Europeans in government work in factories, and on the farms. Many new traits came to Kenya through acculturation.
Why have Africans wanted to change? If you can drive a car to work, would you want to walk? If you can have a refrigerator, would you want to cool your meat in spring? If you can have a pair of shoes, would you want to always go barefooted? People everywhere want to live better.
The problem, sometimes, is that people from other cultures use to impose its political power to subdue acculturated people to avoid they express their ideas openly and freely. Living better must be related to making and having more things. People all over the world want to have enough food to eat, enough clothes to wear, comfortable houses to live, and be treated as human beings. Africans are no different from other people. They want many of the same things other people want.
The direction of acculturation was largely one way: European traits replaced or changed African traits, but African traits had little impact on European. The new traits have helped in the modernization of Kenya. Modernization in Kenya has resulted in the replacement of African traits by European traits.
Acculturation has been stronger in the urban areas. Here the three major forces, nationalism, urbanization, and industrialization, have affected more people for the longest length of time.
(Written by Elmer Clauson and Marion Rice in Discourse Analysis: Strategies for evaluating the written text by Marbella Delgado,2003)
1. - Write the main idea of the text and point out how the controlling idea is repeated inside the context of the MI?
The MI of this text goes from Line # 13 to L# 14:"Acculturation is the change that takes place in a culture over a period of time as a result of contact between different cultures". The controlling idea is repeated inside the context by lexical cohesion.
The MI of this text goes from Line # 13 to L# 14:"Acculturation is the change that takes place in a culture over a period of time as a result of contact between different cultures". The controlling idea is repeated inside the context by lexical cohesion.
2. - Is there any linguistic deviation? Write each word (or words) introduced by the author to complete the meaning of the main idea?
Yes, there are. “Is the change that takes place in a culture over a period of time as a result of contact between different cultures”
3. - Write in your own words, how does the author develop the controlling idea to produce the main idea?
Acculturation is a process that happens when one culture has a change after it has been in contact with another culture.
4. – Write the Main Secondary Idea of the text and its function in regard to the Main Idea?
The MSI goes from L# 9 to L#12: "Contact with the British brought many changes to African culture. This contact with the British is an example of innovations coming from outside the culture. This kind of innovation is called acculturation, because Africans and British came into direct contact". Its function is to expand and to complete the MI.
5. – Write the Secondary-Secondary Idea of the text and what was the author´s intention in writing this idea?
The MSSI goes from L#30 to L#33, from: "The direction of acculturation was largely one way: European traits replaced or changed African traits, but African traits had little impact on European". The author´s intention is to call attention of the reader about the direction of acculturation in Africa.
6. – What is the communicative function of this text? Write the main linguistic signals or discourse makers and the number of the lines where they appear to support your answer.
This text is expositive:
L#10: This… is… an example of…
The text is implicit argumentative:
L#23: The problem, sometimes, is…
7. – Write the Functionalist Paradigmatic Variable:
The Implicit Problem:
Acculturation, sometimes, can be used by people from other cultures to impose its political power to subdue acculturated people to avoid they express their ideas openly and freely.
The Implicit Solution:
Acculturated people have right to live better and it must be related to making and having more things.
8. – Do you agree or disagree with the author? Support your answer by using the strategies taught in class. Write down your thesis or antithesis.
Yes, I agree with the author because acculturation must be a phenomenon used to do the things right, to give benefits to acculturated people and it has to be in both ways, not in a single one.
Relative Clauses:
* Acculturation is the change that takes place in a culture over a period of time as a result of contact between different cultures
Type: Defining
* The schools THAT were start were taught in English.
Type: Defining
Translation
Transculturización
Las costumbres africanas fueron reemplazadas o modificadas por las costumbres europeas. Casi todas las costumbres africanas se han influenciado de la cultura europea, principalmente en las ciudades.
Desde 1886 Kenia estuvo bajo el dominio de Gran Bretaña y fue gobernada por los británicos durante casi 80 años. Las leyes británicas se convirtieron en las leyes de Kenia. El inglés se convirtió en el idioma oficial. En las escuelas que fueron inauguradas se enseñaba en inglés.
El contacto con Gran Bretaña le trajo muchos cambios a la cultura Africana. Este contacto con los británicos es un ejemplo de las innovaciones traídas desde fuera de la cultura. Esta clase de innovación es llamada transculturización debido a que los africanos y los británicos entraron en contacto directo. La transculturización es el cambio que toma lugar en una cultura durante un período de tiempo como resultado del contacto entre diferentes culturas.
Kenia tuvo a los conquistadores europeos y a los oficiales británicos. Los kenianos entraron en contacto con los europeos en el trabajo del gobierno en las fábricas y en las granjas. Muchas nuevas costumbres llegaron a Kenia a través de la transculturización.
¿Por qué quisieron cambiar los africanos? ¿Si pudieras conducir un carro al trabajo, querrías caminar? ¿Si puedes tener una nevera, querrías conservar tu carne al aire libre? ¿Si puedes tener un par de zapatos, querrías andar siempre descalzo? Todo el mundo quiere vivir mejor.
El problema es que algunas veces esa gente de otras culturas usa a la subyugada gente transculturizada para imponer su poder político y así evitar que expresen sus ideas abierta y libremente. Vivir mejor debe relacionarse con tener y hacer más cosas. La gente en el mundo entero quiere tener suficiente comida para alimentarse, ropa que vestir, casas cómodas en las cuales vivir y ser tratadas como seres humanos. Ellos también quieren muchas de las mismas cosas que otras personas quieren.
La dirección de la transculturización fue mayormente en un solo sentido: las costumbres europeas reemplazaron o cambiaron a las costumbres africanas y las costumbres africanas tuvieron muy poco impacto sobre las europeas. Las nuevas costumbres han contribuido a la modernización de Kenia la cual ha resultado en un reemplazo de las costumbres africanas por las europeas.
La transculturización ha sido más fuerte en las áreas urbanas. Aquí las tres fuerzas dominantes, el nacionalismo, la urbanización y la industrialización, han influenciado a más gente en una mayor cantidad de tiempo.
(Escrito por Elmer Clauson y Marion Rice en Análisis del Discurso: Estrategias para evaluar el texto escrito de Marbella Delgado, 2003)
