1. Give the detailed respond.
What is the concept of communication? Communication: communication models, functions, types.
Name the main units of verbal communication. Texts, communicative acts.
What are the main elements of Non-verbal communication? Give the examples of their differences in cultures.
What is the concept of culture?
The concept of foreign culture & ethnocentrism.
What is the concept of culture? Culture assimilation
What is the concept of national character. The meaning of “Cultured person”.
E. Hall culture categorization: idea of “Cultural grammar”. Name the types of the given categorization.
G. Hofstede culture categorization: idea of “ Mental programs”. Name the types of the given categorization.
Concept of intercultural communication
M. Bennet’s model of foreign culture assimilation. What are the main parts of the model?
Social categorization & stereotyping. What the positive and negative sides of stereotyping?
Cultural relativism.
Comparative analysis of Kazakhstan cultural peculiarities and foreign culture features.
Language & intercultural communication. The main concepts.
Language as a culture mirror: real world, culture, language. Their interrelation and interaction.
Culture reflection in the language. Meaning as a sign and as action.
Language as culture tool. Language & national character, language & ideology
Sepir- Whorf hypothesis. Benjamin Lee Whorf and Edward Sapir.
Translation & intercultural communication. The connection of translation and communication.
Language & translation interaction. Translator & intercultural competence.
Translators as “culture carriers”. The role of translator in intercultural communication.
Culture shock. The main stages of culture shock. U-curve. W-curve.
The main issues of intercultural communication.
Cultural values of different cultures. Top of cultural values of the English-speaking countries.
2. Give the definition to the following term.
Kinesics
Proxemics
Haptics
Stereotype
Culture shock
Gesture
Eye contact
Mime
Ethnocentrism
Ethno relativism
Individualism
Collectivism
Empathy.
High-context culture
Low-context culture
Monochromic and polychromic
Paralanguage
Acceptance
Denial
Communication
Language
Culture
Translation
Adaptation
Minimization
3. Give the analysis of the text