LING1021 Cross-Cultural Communication
First Year Course
| Offered By | School of Language Studies |
|---|---|
| Academic Career | Undergraduate |
| Course Subject | Linguistics |
| Offered in | First Semester, 2009 and First Semester, 2010 |
| Unit Value | 6 units |
| Course Description |
The course offers a "hands-on", meaning-based approach to cross-cultural communication. Topics explored in the course include the following: The ‘logic of conversation': Are there universal principles of human conversation?; Different styles of social interaction; Non-verbal communication: gestures, postures, facial expressions; Different cultural attitudes to emotions; Communicative styles and ‘cultural scripts', Key Words and core cultural values; Heterogeneity of cultures and the problem of stereotyping. Selected cultural profiles include Anglo-Australian culture, Anglo-American culture, Australian Aboriginal culture, African American culture, Chinese culture, French culture, Korean culture, Malay culture, Russian culture, South Asian cultures, Spanish culture. |
| Learning Outcomes | Students gain a better understanding of people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds and a greater ability to communicate with them. They learn how to describe cultural norms from a culture-independent and non-ethnocentric perspective. They become able to contribute, in their own way, to better cross-cultural understanding in Australia and in the world. |
| Indicative Assessment |
Class participation (10%), one test (20%), one essay (30%), exam (40%) |
| Workload |
Two hours of lectures and one hour of tutorial per week, and class preparation time. |
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Assumed Knowledge and Required Skills |
No assumed knowledge or skills |
| Corequisites |
Introduction to the Study of Language LING 1001/2001 |
| Prescribed Texts |
Wierzbicka, Anna. 2003[1991]. Cross-cultural pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2nd ed. |
| Preliminary Reading | Besemeres, Mary and Anna Wierzbicka (eds.) 2007. Translating Lives: Living with two languages and cultures. St Lucia: UQP. |
| Indicative Reading List | Tannen, Deborah. 1986. That's not what I mean : how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others. New York : Morrow. Tannen, Deborah. 2001[1990]. You just don't understand : women and men in conversation. New York : Quill. |
| Majors/Specialisations | Applied Linguistics, Australian Studies, International Communication, and Linguistics |
| Programs | Bachelor of Arts (Digital Arts) |
| Academic Contact | Dr Zhengdao Ye |
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