1009IBA Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Linguistic Relativity, Phatic Expression, Critical Period

• School: Griffith University
• Department: Business & Management
• Course: 1009IBA
• Professor: Catherine Burns

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Lecture outline: explore the nature of verbal codes and the dynamic relationship between language, meaning and perception. Intercultural competence model/moving beyond assumptions: recognise the powerful influence and functions of language, explain how language affects our perceptions, appreciate the influence of culture on verbal communication and identity. State, objectively, what is happening: observe, and listen to, what is happening, explore different explanations for what is happening, evaluate which explanations are the most likely (deardorff and deardorff, 2000; deardorff, 2008) Language and its functions: three primary functions of language, label/name. Interaction: transmission, david crystal"s six other features, emotive expression, thinking, phatic interaction, control of reality, keeping history. Language enables us to receive, store, create and manipulate symbols to represent "reality", emotions and ideas. Languages consist of symbols: mental concept, what the symbol stands for, it"s sense, form the symbol takes, physical or otherwise, referent, object or concept referred to, types of symbols.