LING416-11W (C) Whole Year 2011

Special Topic

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2011
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 4 March 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 2 September 2011

Description

Special Topic

SPECIAL TOPIC:  GESTURAL CUES

The communicative act consists not only of speech. Body language, or gestural cues, also play an important, if often overlooked role.

This course will introduce students to the study of non-verbal cues and the range of ways gestural cues are used in verbal communication and understanding and the impact of such non-verbal cues on the unfolding nature of social interaction. This will be a collaborative and hands-on course where students will learn to develop hypotheses about the ways in which the production of these cues vary amongst speakers through combining observation with the study of previous academic research. Students will then test these hypotheses by conducting recorded interviews and the transcription, coding and analysis of the visual data.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Programme Co-ordinator.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Jeanette King

Guest Lecturers:
Professor Lucy Johnston (Psychology) on behavioural mimicry and facial expressions.
Dr Susan Duncan (McNeill Lab Center for Gesture and Speech Research, Chicago) - tbc.
Nichole Gully (Maori, Social and Cultural Studies in Education) on the gestural focussed Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) for second language teaching
Vanessa Will on Baby Sign

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,444.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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