Article outline

• 10.1Introduction
• 10.2Genres as manifestation of culture
  • 10.2.1Genres, orders of discourse, and culture
  • 10.2.2Language acquisition in socio-cultural contexts
    • 10.2.2.1Language development in the child
    • 10.2.2.2Genre, shared collaborative activities and culture
  • 10.2.3Genre/culture and sub-culture: Shared knowledge, intimacy and abbreviation
• 10.3Ideology, anthropocentrism and grammar
  • 10.3.1Grammar-dependent metonymies and ideology
    • 10.3.1.1The empathy hierarchy: Active nature and possession schemas
    • 10.3.1.2Conflating of motion verbs
    • 10.3.1.3Ergativitiy
    • 10.3.1.4Nominalisations and passives
    • 10.3.1.5Personal reference
• 10.4Metonymy themes
  • Restriction and difficulty
  • Appointment
• 10.5Individual lexis and ideology
  • 10.5.1Complex figuration from a historical perspective
    • Gerrymander
    • Pioneer
    • Deadline
    • Carpetbagger
    • Speakeasy
    • Jazz
    • G.I.
    • Doggy bag
    • Baby sitter
    • Boys will be boys
    • Latchkey children
    • Nuclear family
    • FOMO
    • Selfie
  • 10.5.2Cultural movements
    • Artless
    • Class struggle, class conflict, class war
    • Non-aligned movement
    • Behaviourism
    • Capitalism
    • Humanism
  • 10.5.3Social groups, social trends and resistance
    • 10.5.3.1The problematic young
      • Teenager
      • Generation gap
      • Generation X
      • Yuppie
    • 10.5.3.2Sexual mores and the family
      • Sex object, sexism
      • Not just a pretty face
      • Dinkie/dinky
      • Single parent, single mother, lone parent, solo parent
      • Helicopter parent
    • 10.5.3.3Economy and work
      • Consumer society
      • Emallgration
      • Lessness
      • Rat-race
      • Sweatshop
      • Slack, slacker
      • Junk food, fast food
  • 10.5.4Emotive lexis
    • 10.5.4.1Euphemism and change in emotive spin
      • Senior moment
      • Industrial action
      • Sexy
      • Gay
      • Woke
    • 10.5.4.2Dysphemism and banter in Australian society
      • Bullshit
      • Bloody
      • Bastard
      • Bugger
    • 10.5.4.3Pejorative affixes and cultural change
  • 10.5.5Playful hypothetical nonce words
    • Coffused
    • Phonemantic
    • Procrastinetflix
    • Saudiception
    • Pollutocrat
• 10.6Postscript and summary
• Note