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175-006 Communication Across Cultures | |
Note | Formerly available as 175-108. Students who have completed 175-108 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 1st year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Assoc.Prof.Nick Evans |
Prerequisites | None |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per 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 (focused 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, such as French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Anglo-Australian, and Aboriginal Australian. |
Assessment | A 2000-word research project and a 2-hour exam. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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