LFLFC:Culture tags

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Please NB: many changes have been made on 12/20/2011 to the tagging system. Many settings have been removed or simplified, ‘drinking’ now refers to tea, coffee, mate, juice, being thirsty, etc., whereas ‘alcohol’ refers to the drinking of alcoholic beverages. Transportation has been dramatically simplified.

NOTE: legitimate tags are capitalized in this list, but should be entered in lower case. Items in parentheses are explanatory only. Items in bold are Headers and should not be used as tags.

• Special tags for sexual content (do not cut sex scenes with no linguistic or cultural content)
• Explicit (portrayals of intercourse, oral sex, etc. Normally such scenes are cut only if the linguistic or cultural content warrants its inclusion.)
• Nudity (bare breast, bare buttocks, frontal nudity)
• Sex (talking about sex, verbally describing sex)
• Actions (with cultural significance)
• Consumption
• Alcohol
• Drinks (coffee, tea, mate, juice; being thirsty, etc.)
• Drugs (recreational)
• Food (eating, preparing, buying, feeding others)
• Smoking
• Cleaning (washing dishes or clothes, vacuuming)
• Clothing (wearing, buying, dressing, talking about)
• Grooming (showering, brushing, cosmetics, shaving, etc)
• Body (talking about body parts)
• Sauna
• Free time activities
• Sports
• Hobby (e.g., stamp collecting, knitting, woodworking, etc.)
• Recreation (any type of leisure time activity, including playing cards or games, fishing and hunting, hiking, listening to music or reading books or watching films)
• Travel (including visiting touristy-type places)
• Socializing (conversation, dating, groups)
• Settings
• Country (wilderness, low habitation)
• Rural (small towns, villages, country homes, farms, etc.)
• Beach
• Home (generalized domestic setting; home interiors; exteriors around a home; see also Housing)
• Toilet (see also Scatology)
• Kitchen (see also Food)
• Guest (entertaining guests)
• Housing (buying, selling, remodeling, building)
• Farm
• Transportation
• Urban Places (some of these may be rural as well)
• Airport, Bank, Bar, Baths (public), Beach, Brothel, Cafe, Carnival (e.g., amusement parks), Casino, Cemetery, Church, Cinema, Circus, Classroom, Clinic, Club, Conservatory, Construction, Courts, Dormitory, Elevator, Factory, Fastfood, Fire station, Garage (car mechanic or place where car is stored), Garden, Gym, Hairdresser (=barber), Hospital, Hotel, Institute (research or specialized higher ed), Library, Market (= bazaar), Mosque, Museum, Nightclub, Office, Orphanage, Palace, Park, Parking, Pool (swimming), Postoffice, Prison, Rally (political, street protest, etc.), Resort, Restaurant, School (elementary through high school), Shops (food, clothing, bookstores, etc.), Stadium, Station (bus, train, ferry), Street (general outside), Studio (tv), Synagogue, Temple (e.g., Buddhist), Shrine (e.g., Shintoist), Theater, Zoo
• Topics of Discussion (or entities shown on screen; see also Settings, Actions)
• Arts
• Architecture, Literature, Music, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Theater
• Education (training, school, academy; see also School, Institute, Instruction)
• Exam
• Emotions (Use this tag for display of emotions of a wide range: anger, jealousy, frustration, shame, regret, fear, happiness, pride, etc. Also, accompanying human actions such as crying, yelling, etc. fall under this tag.
• Geography (for clips containing a number of country or city names)
• Border (entering/leaving a country, passport control, etc.)
• Nationalities (for names of people from other countries, i.e., Mexicans, Russians, etc)
• Tourism (doing things tourists do, i.e., visiting cultural sites)
• Travel (talking about travel, dealing with passports, luggage, etc.)
• Health
• Covers: Doctor, Dentist, Medicine, Illness, Injury, Operation, Abortion
• History (historical events referenced in a clip)
• Life Cycle
• Pregnancy, Birth, Baby, Baptism, Children, Parents, Education, Teenager, Marriage, Wedding, Divorce, Anniversary, Elderly, Death, Suicide, Funeral, Dreams
• Media
• Advertising
• Censorship
• Journalism (newspaper reporting, tv news, etc)
• Music
• Radio
• Film
• Television
• Nature
• Animals
• Pets (i.e., any domesticated animal kept as a pet; farm animals or wild animals use ‘animals’)
• Disaster (floods, earthquakes, fires, etc)
• Ecology
• Weather
• Relationships
• Adultery, Dating, Family, Fight, Friendship, Incest, Love (talking about it; see also Affection and Endearment in Speech Acts), Names, Neighbor, Nudity, Prostitute, Rivalry, Sex (discussions about sexual relations), Explicit (portrayals of sexual relations), Titles
• Science
• Society
• Economy
• Commerce
• Employment (searching for a job, job interview, getting fired, quitting a job)
• Professions
• Money (earning, borrowing, spending)
• Industry
• Farming, Fishing, Manufacturing, Mining,
• Insurance
• Poverty
• Government
• Bureaucracy
• Border (passport control)
• Censorship
• Document (passport, residency card, driver’s license, etc)
• Law
• Courts (trials)
• Justice (when the topic is discussed)
• Crime
• Arrest, Bribe, Mafia, Police, Prison, Scam, Security (measures to prevent crime or espionage, such as passes, surveillance), Theft, Violence (murder, rape, assault)
• Diplomacy
• Espionage
• Military
• War
• Politics (political parties)
• Elections
• Rally (political street protests, political gatherings)
• Revolution
• Terrorism
• Social Classes
• Caste
• Class
• Disabled
• Ethnicity
• Minorities (use for immigrants, indigenous peoples, etc.)
• Foreigners (see also Non-native on the Linguistics page)
• Gender
• Chauvinism
• Feminism
• Race
• Religion
• Confession, Prayer, Service (e.g., mass)
• Orientation (sexual)
• Technology
• Cell phone
• Computer
• Email
• Telephone
• Television
• Time
• Clock
• Dates
• Holidays
• Seasons
• Tradition
• Fortune telling
• Myth
• Superstition