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May 14, 2016 Presented by Gerry Russo

Recognition of Culture Shock: Seeing its effects in others

May 14, 2016 | presented by Gerry Russo, PhD Recognition of Culture Shock: Seeing its Effects in Others

Where on earth have you been?

•  Ice-breaker •  Geography •  Pronunciation •  Small talk •  Grammar (tense, prepositions,

transitivity, modals, question formation, etc.)

•  Fun


Randomness

•  Fate? •  Free will? •  Subconscious? •  Something else?


Where on earth is English from?

•  England English •  The United Kingdom •  Great Britain

•  England •  Northern Ireland •  Scotland •  Wales

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What on earth do people speak in

the UK? (What don’t they speak?) Indigenous languages:

•  English •  Scots •  Welsh •  Scottish Gaelic •  Irish •  Etc.


Communication

Shannon & Weaver (1949)

•  Sender •  Receiver •  Channel •  Signal •  Noise •  Encoding/Decoding


Communication

Channels of communication

•  Verbal •  Prosodic •  Paralinguistic •  Kinesic •  Static


Communication

Channels of communication (3 vocal)

Mary gave John a book.

1. It was not Mary who did this. 2. She didn’t sell it. 3. John was not the recipient. 4. It was only one book. 5. She didn’t give him a look. 6. You are not sure what happened 7. You are surprised that this happened. 8. You are angry that this happened


Communication

Channels of communication (non-verbal)

•  Kinesic o  Gestures o  Facial movements

•  Static o  Adornment o  Body position o  Proxemics


Empathy

•  Learner factor in SLA (Brown,1973).

Empathy is the process of “putting yourself into someone’s [sic] else’s shoes,” of reaching beyond the self and understanding and feeling what another person is understanding or feeling; it is probably the major factor in the harmonious co-existence of individuals in society. Language is one of the primary means of emphathizing. Kinesic, kinesthetic, proxemic, and other paralinguistic modes of communication facilitate the process of emphathizing, and must not be overlooked. (p. 235)

•  Integral to managing effects of culture shock. (Winkelman, 1994).


Stages of Culture Shock

Oberg (1954, 1960)

•  Honeymoon •  Rejection / regression •  Recovery •  Adjustment

•  Reverse Culture Shock (Gullahorn & Gullahorn, 1963 in Dutton, 2011)

•  Rooted in biology? (Dutton, 2011)


Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (2003)

“My Name is Yu Ming”

•  Award-winning short film (13 min) •  Written/Directed by Daniel O’Hara •  Starring Daniel Wu •  Available on YouTube.com

(user filmbase) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYtG9BNhfM&list=PL783705542A77B5D3


Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (2003)

Approaches to the film

•  Linguistic •  Narrative •  Cultural •  Psychological


Linguistic/communicative

•  Yu Ming’s approach to language learning

•  Vocabulary •  Other language practice •  Prosody, etc. •  Gestural/body language


Narrative

•  Chronology •  Gaps •  Main plot points •  Detailed sequences

•  Metalanguage of narratives •  Themes •  Symbolism


Cultural

•  Identifying cultural features o Behaviour o Artefacts

•  Macro culture (national) •  Micro culture (workplace) •  Comparisons


Psychological

•  Culture shock •  Reading emotions •  Relating to / empathizing with


References

Brown, H. (1973). Affective Variables in Second Language Acquisition.

Language Learning, 23(2), 231-244.

Dutton, E. (2011). Towards a Scientific Model of Culture Shock and Intercultural Communication. Journal of Intercultural Communication, ISSN 1404-1634, issue 27, November 2011. retrieved from http://www.immi.se/intercultural/nr27/dutton.htm

Gullahorn John & Gullahorn, Jeanne. (1963). An Extension of the U-Curve Hypothesis. Social Issues, 19: 3.

Oberg, K. (1960). Culture shock: adjustment to new cultural environments. Practical Anthropology 7, 177-182. Reprinted in curare 29 (2006) 2+3, 142-146.

Shannon, C., & Weaver, Warren. (1949). The mathematical theory of communication (Illini book; IB-13). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Winkelman, M. (1994). Cultural Shock and Adaptation. Journal of Counseling & Development, 73(2), 121-126.


Thanks!

Gerry Russo [email protected]

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