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Intercultural Spr2006 Sess17

Index Card Assignment due Thursday: Select a single scene from your text. Identify three signs from that scene. For each, identify the "langue" or language with which it is associated. For each, identify three meanings for the sign. Since the question was raised in class, do this as a list. It should be able to fit on one side of a three by five card.
Notice: I've changed the schedule somewhat. Note that there is no class next Thursday.
Convenience (I hope): I've moved the due date for short paper two back a week.

Non-Verbal Codes

When language fails we often fall back on non-verbal
- Pointing at things
- Miming things
Variants of non-verbal behavior
- Situational appropriateness as dialectic
Differences between verbal and non-verbal
Coordinating verbal and non-verbal
Non-verbal codes
- Vocalics and paralanguage/Vocal cues
  - Tone, pitch, pauses, pacing
- Silence
- Kinesics - gesture, posture and body movement
- Facial Expression - Smiles, Frowns, Blushes, etc
- Eye contact
- Proxemics
  - Contact versus non-contact cultures
  - Territoriality and Personal Space
  - Cultural Space
    - Home
    - Neighborhood
    - Region
  - Transcendence of cultural space
    - Travel
    - Migration
  - The social construction of cultural space
  - Virtual Space as Cultural Space
- Haptics/Touch
- Chronemics
  - Monochronic (linear) versus polochronic (holistic) cultures
  - Message speed
  - Length of relationship
- Artifacts
  - Clothing
  - Makeup
  - Appearance
  - Accessories
- Environment
  - Architecture
  - Furnishings and Room Arraingement
  - Decoration
Production codes in film and vido
- Sound
- Music
- Shots
- Color
- lighting
- Aesthetics
- Narrative
- Special Effects
- Pace

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