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Year 1 Linguistics.
Credit points: 12.5 1st year
Coordinator: Nick Evans.
Prerequisite: No special prerequisite. It is not necessary to know a language other than English to study Linguistics.
Contact: Two lectures and one tutorial a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
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.
Assessment:
Research assignment(1,500 words), essay 1,500 words and a two hour exam, totalling 4,000 words.
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