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M.A. Thesis Language and Culture Studies
Specialisation Intercultural Communication, Dutch as a Second Language
Supervisor: S. Kroon
Faculty of Arts
Tilburg University
Tilburg 1999
FOREWORD ........................................................................ .................................................................. III
1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................
.................................................... 1
2 KLINGON AS AN ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE ........................................................................
........ 3
2.1 INTRODUCTION........................................................................
..................................................... 3
2.2 THE DIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES........................................................................
.............................. 4
2.3 DESIGNING AN ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE........................................................................
..................... 5
2.4 THE LANGUAGE KLINGON........................................................................
.................................... 10
2.4.1 Historical background ........................................................................
.............................. 10
2.4.2 Linguistic features........................................................................
.................................... 11
2.4.3 Some remarks about Klingon........................................................................
.................. 17
2.4.4 The special position of Klingon........................................................................
................ 18
3 KLINGON AS A MARKER OF GROUP IDENTITY..................................................................... 19
3.1 INTRODUCTION........................................................................
................................................... 19
3.2 THE THEORY OF SOCIAL IDENTITY........................................................................
........................ 20
3.3 LANGUAGE AS A GROUP MARKER........................................................................
......................... 26
3.4 THE SPECIAL POSITION OF KLINGON........................................................................
..................... 29
4 THE DESIGN OF
THE SURVEY........................................................................ .......................... 31
4.1 INTRODUCTION........................................................................
................................................... 31
4.2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS........................................................................
....................................... 31
4.3 SUBJECTS AND PROCEDURE........................................................................
................................ 31
4.4 THE MAIL QUESTIONNAIRE........................................................................
................................... 33
4.4.1 Personal features........................................................................
..................................... 33
4.4.2 The relation with Klingon ........................................................................
......................... 34
4.4.3 Attitudes........................................................................
................................................... 34
4.5 THE RESULTS OF ANALYSIS........................................................................
.................................. 35
4.5.1 Personal features........................................................................
..................................... 37
4.5.2 The relation with Klingon ........................................................................
......................... 41
4.4.3 Attitudes........................................................................
................................................... 49
4.6 THE PROFILE OF THE"AVERAGE KLINGON USER" ........................................................................
... 55
5 SUMMARY AND DISCUSSIONS........................................................................
......................... 57
BIBLIOG
........................................................... 61 LIST OF FIGURES........................................................................ ........................................................ 65 APPENDIXES ........................................................................ ............................................................... 67 SOME INTERESTING SITES........................................................................ ............................................ 67 THE SURVEY........................................................................ ................................................................ 69 I
Foreword
When it was time for me to think of a subject for my final thesis, I could not think of any thing interesting. During the last two years we learned a lot about intercultural communication, about the ways languages are learnt and about languages in general. I had the feeling that if I had chosen a subject that had to do with this, I would be doing something that all my teachers know for years. The time that stands for a thesis is too short to do anything major that is unknown. Maybe I could have come up with something that was new and unknown, but then it would be such a minor thing that I would not have liked it. Probably these ideas are totally wrong, but they were mine and I tried to think of something else. Something that was, at least inquotesdbs_dbs7.pdfusesText_5