1. Language & Communication

2. Objectives
Understand how language is defined and how humans acquire language.

3. Language Acquisition Language
phonemes, grammar, syntax, context
sensitive period
9:22-11:24

4. Objectives
Compare cultural similarities and differences in language.

5. Language & Culture
Content
nouns vs. verbs
values

6. Language Bilingualism
Monolingual Koreans, Korean-Americans, and Americans, Bilingual Americans and Koreans
Executive function advantages due to bilingualism above cultural differences- paying attention, remembering details, planning

7. Objectives
Understand theories of the relationship between language and thought

8. Language Theories Whorfian Hypothesis
Language defines our thoughts & understanding of concepts
Concept of Numbers
Matching task – role of memory
Structure of Language
Categorization tasks in multiple languages

9. Objectives
Compare cultural similarities and differences in communication.

10. Nonverbal Communication
Demonstration
Gestures
En route to language, deaf & hearing
Share objects, share info, requests, show emotion
agency vs. object exchange vs. emotion vs. protest

11. Nonverbal Communication
Facial expressions as communication
microexpressions
Touch
NE Asians < SE Asians < Caribbean-Latin < Northern Europe < USA (CA)
Friends/Lovers > Spouses = Family

12. Communication
High context cultures
Low context cultures

13. Words & Relationships Indirect language, innuendo, & relationships

14. Communication Insults as reflection of the cultural self
“I wish you a cancer” or “I hope you will be murdered” vs. “I wish an accident on all of your family”
“you are a wanker” vs. “your mother is a whore”
“go and masturbate” vs. “go lick the prick of your father”
“you’re a cretin” vs. “dirty Communist”