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bicultural, a.|baɪˈkʌltjʊərəl|
[f. bi-2 + cultural a.]
Having or combining two cultures. So biˈculturalism, biˌcultuˈration.
1940C. F. Ware Cultural Approach Hist. ii. 67 The assumption of a single culture with a common language, rather than the bicultural tradition of Quebec. 1953Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics Memoir viii. 40 Weinreich considered Lounsbury's point important for bilingualism and biculturalism. 1955W. E. Collinson in Archivum Linguisticum VII. 143 In..the socio-cultural setting of linguistic contact all kinds of different factors emerge, e.g...biculturation, religious differences, [etc.]. 1958Jrnl. Abnormal & Soc. Psychol. LVI. 242/1 A comparison was made between those who acquired their two languages in geographically distinct cultures (bicultural experience) and those who acquired both languages in separated contexts within one geographical region (unicultural experience). 1963Times 25 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. v/7 Officially Canada has been a bilingual and a bicultural country since 1867, but in fact this bilingualism and this biculturalism do not exist. |