12.5 1st year Nick Evans. No special prerequisite. It is not necessary to know a language other than English to study Linguistics. Second semester Two lectures and one tutorial a week. By the end of the subject, students should be able to:

• identify the major components of a communicative event and the factors leading to breakdowns in inter-cultural communication;
• understand the basic linguistic tools for analysing these,
• be able to analyse a range of case studies drawn from a wide range of cultures and settings.

The main components of communicative events across cultures, how they can be analysed, how they vary in a range of cultures from around the world to be focussed on in case studies, and the difficulties and misunderstandings these differences create in intercultural and cross-gender communication. Specific topics include body language, titles and respect, turn-taking and turn maintenance, narrative structuring, intonation, requests, disagreement and criticism, information seeking, politeness, business negotiation. The subject will be organized around case studies of half a dozen speech communities from around the world, including French, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Anglo-Australian and Aboriginal Australian. Research assignment(1,500 words), essay 1,500 words and a two hour exam, totalling 4,000 words.