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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
175-108 Communication Across Cultures |
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Credit Points: | 12.5 1st year | |
Coordinator: | Nick Evans | |
Prerequisite/s: | No special prerequisite. It is not necessary to know a language other than English to study Linguistics. | |
Timetable: | Semester 2 | |
Contact: | Two lectures and one tutorial a week | |
Subject Description: | The main components of communicative events across cultures, the main linguistic approaches to analysing them, how they vary in a range of cultures from around the world (focussed on case studies), and the difficulties and misunderstandings these difference create in inter-cultural 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, and business negotiation. The subject will be organised around case studies of half a dozen speech communities from around the world, including French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Anglo-Australian, and Aboriginal Australian. | |
Assessment: | Research assignment (1500 words), essay 1500 words and a two hour exam, totalling 4000 words. | |
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