LNGS2617 - Cross-Cultural Communication

Semester 1, 2013  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Loy Lising
Phone: +61 2 9351 7518
Email: loy.lising@sydney.edu.au

Description

In today's globalized and multicultural societies, intercultural communication is common. It challenges people who engage in it, and theories of communication in different societies (i.e. cross-cultural communication). We consider approaches including conversation analysis, speech act theory, interactional sociolinguistics, the ethnography of communication, and discourse analysis. In analysing samples of cross-cultural communication we attend to how social relationships between participants are reflected in their linguistic practices. We explore applied perspectives on intercultural communication in educational, courtroom and workplace interactions.

Assessments

1x1500wd presentation (25%), 1x1500wd problem set (25%), 1x3000wd essay (50%)

Classes

1x2-hr seminar/week

Prerequisites

Either (two of LNGS1001, LNGS1002, LNGS1003, LNGS1004, LNGS1005) or (Credit average in 12 Senior credit points from one of the foreign languages (French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, Latin, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Indonesian, Malay, Korean, Thai, Yiddish, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, Sanskrit)

Prohibitions

LNGS3903, LNGS3923

Additional Information

This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

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