Unit 4: Discussion FACT QUESTIONS (required by Friday)
For Fact Question Discussion Boards, you will discuss an idea from the chapter reading. The
... [Show More] purpose of this thread is to help you learn correct, research-based information. To begin:
1. Read the textbook assignment.
2. Choose a question to answer from the questions below. (But once an question has been responded to twice on the board, please choose an alternate question.)
3. Answer the question with a five to seven sentence response and answer it as if you are leading the class so other students will also know the right answer.
A: Make sure you use only your textbook as your source.
B: Paraphrase the information into your own words.
C: For opinion based questions, use textbook based terminology and examples to back your claims.
4. Respond to a minimum of two classmate Fact Question responses with well thought four to six sentence responses, focusing on the implications of the classmates answers.
Questions
1. How does your language affect the way you think?
2. Explain the relationship between language and culture.
3. Explain the principle of linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism.
4. Define the three levels of language.
5. Explain the principle of universal grammar.
6. List and define three universals of language.
7. Compare and contrast elaborated and restricted codes.
8. Define nonverbal communication.
9. Compare and contrast verbal and nonverbal codlies.
10. Define kinesics and provide examples of kinesic behavior across cultures.
11. Define paralanguage and provide cross-cultural examples of paralinguistic differences.
12. Define proxemics and provide cross-cultural examples of proxemic differences.
13. Define haptics and provide cross-cultural examples of haptic differences.
14. Define olfactics and discuss how smell is perceived across cultures.
15. Define chronemics and discuss how time is perceived across cultures.
16. Recount the fundamental assumptions of the nonverbal expectancy violations theory.
17. How does your style of dress identify you as a member of a particular culture? [Show Less]