Course Details
Country:
Japan
Institution:
Waseda University
Course Title:
Intercultural Communication alpha 01
Course Number:
GSSD101L
Course Description:
In this course we will examine the interface between culture and communication, looking at research dealing with speakers of Japanese and English as well as a variety of other languages. Students will be encouraged to compare the findings with their personal experiences in the languages they speak. Research regarding speech acts -- utterances that perform a function -- will comprise a major part of the course. The speech acts we will look at in this quarter will include requests, invitations/offers, refusals, thanking, congratulating, and commiseration/condolences. The articles we will read and discuss examine these speech acts from a cross-cultural perspective, observing similarities and differences in how they are performed among speakers of different cultures. In this type of analysis, the utterances are typically classified according to a strategic taxonomy. Speakers of one culture may generally use these strategies to a greater or lesser frequency than those of another culture. We
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 195
Attachment Files:
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