| It is the position of this study that through the development and implementation of specific methodologies the cultural awareness necessary to demonstrate intercultural communicative competence will be achieved.; Chapter 1 discusses the need of a culture pedagogy for foreign language-culture study which meets the aims of 21st Global-Information-Age learners, and suggests a methodology based in a symbolic-cognitive approach to culture.; Chapters 2 and of this study outline the anthropological and sociological theories used to formulate the research definition of culture utilized to generate the Cultural Inventory. Chapter 3 explores how Melford E. Spiro's “culturally constituted” concept and theory of cultural acquisition are helpful in understanding the semiotic nature cultural phenomena, i.e. their role as sign-vehicles for cultural communication. And, Chapter 4 presents this study's research definition of culture, its content and form, as utilized to develop the Cultural Inventory.; Chapters 5 and 6 of this study outline the semiotic theories used to formulate the Cultural Inventory as a pedagogical tool. Chapter 6 defines the parameters of the “action sequence” as a unit of cultural communication in textual narratives. Chapter 7 of this study presents the Cultural Inventory with filter definitions, explanations and example analysis of the Brother' Grimm “Der Süße Brei”.; The Cultural Inventory, as a semiotic-based method of analysis, presents a symbolic-cognitive theoretical concept and approach to culture. The Cultural Inventory, as a translation tool, provides the analysis process and translation vocabulary necessary to read and discuss texts as cultural communication. As a translation tool, it enables students to process textual data through a battery of theoretical filters created and arranged to facilitate the critical analysis of ideologies existent in primary texts. Utilizing the Cultural Inventory as a translation tool thus enables the student to discuss literary action sequences as cultural communications. |
