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Контрольная работа 3.
Контрольная работа 3.
Раздел 3. Личность и общество в терминах межкультурной коммуникации
Task 1.
Define the following terms:
Person, society, interpersonal communication, social inequality, gender factor, masculinity /femininity, gender egalitarianism, facework, power distance, individualism/collectivism, universalism/exclusionism
Task 2.
Expand on the following questions:
1. What are the characteristic features of interpersonal communication?
2. How do initial experiences with language shape or influence the way in which a person thinks?
- If you could construct an ideal society, would it be one in which everyone spoke the same language?
- Does a society in which people speak different languages offer greater advantages?
5. Do the categories of a language: its words, grammar, and usage, influence how people think and behave?
6. What is the difference between a dialect and an accent? Between jargon and argot? Give an example of each of these terms.
7. If you use a jargon in your speech, when is it used? That is, in what places, relationships, or settings do you use it?
8. What are power distance differences within countries: social class, education level, and occupation?
9. What are the origins of power distance differences?
Task 3.
- Give your view on the role of a personal factor in cross-cultural communication.
- Describe the levels of the linguistic personality.
- Give the examples from your personal experience that describe face maintenance.
- Give the examples from your personal experience that describe how people differ in dealing with their own and others’ face needs.
- Provide examples of actions to be regarded as face-threatening that you believe differ for people from cultures other than your own.
- Concepts of masculinity and femininity: the social and emotional implications of having been born as a boy or a girl.
- Describe language, personality, and behavior in individualist and collectivist cultures.
Task 4.
Write an essay on the following theme:
“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein)