The specific availability for this course is not currently known. If you would like to know if this course will be offered during your session, please contact us.
Offered Week 1 and 2, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Thematic structure:
Social interaction, communities and speech communication; Communicating interests, intentions, identities, diversities, conflicts and consensus
Cultures and sub-cultures: group structure, membership and cohesion; Linguistic, political and cultural dominance/control: mass communication media, nationalism, ethnicity, minority groups, dialects
Intercultural, transcultural, crosscultural and multicultural communication; Multiculturalism and multiple identities
The European communication landscape: international and intercultural communication
supra-national representation,
national representation,
regional representation,
local representation,
the role of the civil societies: NGOs, grass-root initiatives, pressure groups
6. Communication landscape in Asia and Africa: new partnerships for Europe
7. Socialization, communicative skills, literacy and context-sensitivization
education,
family and kinship,
social organizations,
peer groups
8. The linguistic perspective:
the language faculty: linguistic competence and communicative competence,
the language system: productive, semi- productive and non-productive elements,
language use: register, style, speech acts, scripts, narratives
9. The social-psychological perspective:
narratives: spinning the self,
argumentative discourse: negotiating the self,
individual and social cognition: linguistic symbolism, metaphors, memes and virtual reality,
social adaptation,
social empowerment
10. Intercultural and multicultural arguments:
conflict-resolving and
difference-maintaining argumentative strategies
Short lectures, discussions, group work, and work sheets.
Oral participation and work sheets.
Download course description here in Acrobat PDF Format Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to download this file
