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GEK1036
 Cross-Cultural Communication and Discourse
[Lecturer]
Dr Deng Xudong

The study of discourse in cross-cultural contexts is an especially important endeavour in modern times. The reason for its importance lies in the great potential for miscommunication and misperceptions based upon differing norms of interaction across societies and speech communities. In a world that is increasingly smaller insofar as peoples from different societies interact with greater and greater frequency, awareness of these different norms is essential to mutual understanding and successful communication in cross-cultural contexts. This module examines patterns of communication and discourse in different cultures and languages to make students aware of differences which could impact on communication between members of different cultures. It provides access to a range of examples of communication involving different cultural and linguistic backgrounds and shows some ways in which linguistic scholarship can lead to a better understanding of the differences and of the ways in which they affect human behaviour.

   [Course information]

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This course is open to undergraduate students from all faculties ...

There will be two lecture-tutorial groups: Friday 10 am - 1 pm and Friday 2 pm - 5 pm. You only have to register for one of the time slots. The first lecture cum tutorial starts on 22 January 2010.... ... 

 

[Web Resources]

1. NUS Library: LINK

2. Academic Journals

Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdisciplinary Monthly of Language Studies

Language in Society

Language and Intercultural Communication

Applied Linguistics

MULTILINGUA: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication

TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse

Language, Culture, and Curriculum

Discourse & Society: An International Journal for the Study of Discourse and Communication in their Social, Political and Cultural Contexts

Research on Language and Social Interaction

Discourse Processes: The Official Journal of the Society for Text and Discourse

 Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk

Written Communication: A Quarterly Journal of Research, Theory & Application

Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development

Language Awareness

Language & Communication:
An Interdisciplinary Journal

Language Sciences

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Communication Theory

3. Other Useful Links
 

[semester schedule]
1 Introduction

Introduction

QUIZ - what's in the unit outline?

 
2 Communication Systems 1: Speech Acts

Lecture Notes

Tutorial
 
3 Communication Systems 2: Speech Events

Lecture Notes

  Tutorial
 
4 Communication Systems 3: Spoken Discourse

Lecture Notes

Tutorial
 
5 Communication Systems 4: Written Discourse

Lecture Notes

Tutorial
 
6 Cultural Systems 1: Components and Representation

Lecture Notes  

Tutorial

Research proposal due
 
7 Cultural Systems 2: Face, Politeness, and Power

Lecture Notes

Tutorial
 
8 Communicative Situations 1: Cross-Gender Communication

Communicative Situations 1: Cross-Gender Communication

Tutorial

Literature review due
 
9 Communicative Situations 2: Computer-Mediated Communication

Lecture Notes

Tutorial
 
10 Communicative Situations 3: Business Communication

Communicative Situations 3: Business Communication

Tutorial

Open book quiz
 
11 Communicative Situations 4: Professional Communication

Lecture Notes

Tutorial

Project presentation

 
 
12 Achieving Understanding: Social and Discoursal Perspective

Achieving Understanding: Social and Discoursal Perspective

Tutorial

Project presentation
 

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