UNIT 1:
Nature, culture, language

True/False

1. Nature alone can reveal and preserve its beauty.

2. Thanks to culture, nature can be recognized with value and identity.

3. Thanks to language, the value and beauty of nature can be preserved with its identity.

4. A nature without culture is characterized with oblivion, anonymity and randomness.

5. Regarding the Linguistic Relativism, the proposal of the idea is that different people speak differently because they …………………………………. (in 2 or 3 words).

6. People think differently because their languages offer them different ways of expressing the world around them

Explanation

1. How can people identify themselves as members of community? (in one line)

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2. How can culture liberate people? (in one line)

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3. How can culture constrain people? (in one line)

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4. Regarding the topic, way and style of presenting information, please provide one example about the reactions of social groups based on differing values given to a speech act in different cultures.

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5. Regarding the imagined communities, it is said that the city of London is inseparable, in the cultural imagination of its citizens, from Shakespeare and Dickens. Please provide one example about imagined communities as far as Vietnamese culture is concerned.

6. Which of the brief description fits each of the two versions (strong and weak) of Linguistic Relativism by Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

|Version |Description |
| |- Lexicons will reflect aspects of the culture (cultural differences in semantic