FRAME categories

FRAME adapts the OCM for field research projects by grouping the categories of the OCM into ten high-level categories. It provides a conceptual model for investigating culture in a way that helps field researchers in the process of language and culture learning.

• PV Project Variables
• GC General Culture and Change
• MC Material Culture
• EC Economics
• SL Social Life and Identity
• SG Social Groups
• PP Political Process
• AR Adversity and Resolution
• WR Worldview and Religion
• LC Life Cycle

• Overview module: FRAME categories
• In modular book: Using the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM), by Elinor Abbot
• In bookshelf: Anthropology

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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