II. Discussion

Task 1. Discuss the following questions.

1. Provide examples of emblems that are common for more than one culture.

2. Provide examples of emblems that are culturally defined? Have you ever been misled by such gestures? Give some details of the situation.

3. Provide examples of self-adaptors and object-adaptors that are commonly used by your groupmates.

4. What cultural display rules are followed in your country?

5. Have you ever come across professional display rules. Provide some examples.

6. What personal display rules are shared with your family members?

7. What does eye behavior indicate?

10. How can silence affect communication?

11.What cultural time orientation is common for your country?

12. What kind of territories can be occupied by people?

13. Dwell on how territories may be encroached.

14. Analyze how seating choice in classrooms, offices affects communication.

15. Speak on the main factors that affect personal closeness and the way these factors influence communication.

16. What information does touch convey?

17. Have you ever been affected by body type as far as personal relations, studies, career are concerned?

18. How can clothes affect the process of communication?

19. What message do such objects as buildings, as well as size, materials convey?

20. Dwell on the main ways to improve language skills.

Task 2. Identify the type of non-verbal means used in the following situations as well as the message they convey.

1. Mr. Casey, freeing his arms from his holders, suddenly bowed his head on his hands with a sob of pain. – Poor Parnell! He cried loudly. – My dead king! He sobbed loudly and bitterly.

2. The girl came back, making signs to him to be quick and go out quietly by the back.

3. A smell of molten tallow came up from the dean’s candle butts and fused itself in Stephen’s consciousness with the jingle of the words, bucket and lamp and lamp and bucket.

4. …Davin who, intent on the game, had paid no need the talk of the others.

– And how is my little tame goose? He asked. Did he sign, too?

Davin nodded and said: - And you, Stevie?

Stephen shook his head.

5. “Oh, for God’s sake!” I stared at her in exasperation and walked out of the kitchen and into the back garden.

6. Ian motioned to me to sit beside him. “Tell him that he’s a fool and that he’s missing out on a really great woman.”

7. “There isn’t going to be a wedding,” I told her. “Isobel!” She looked at me in shock. “Why?”

8. She waved at a lounge-girl. “A couple of Southern Comforts, please.”

9. She raised an eyebrow enquiringly at me.

10. “Oh, Isobel!” She put her arms around me and hugged me.

Task 3. Discuss in small groups answers to the following questions.

How can you characterize yourself according to the Stanford Time Perspective Inventory scale? How does your time orientation affect communication? Think about your own time perspective. When does your orientation work for you, and when does it get you into trouble? Are your relationships with others hurt or helped by the way you think of time?

Task 4. Working in pairs define whether you are an endormorph, a mesomorph, or a ectomorph; and state your somatype. Explain your choice.

Unit 6