Paraphrasing the question If I've understood your question correctly, you're saying/asking ... So, what you're asking is ... Well, the question is ... . Is that right? Let me just check that I've understood your question. You're asking ... So, do we intend to ...? Getting the questioner to rephrase Sorry, I'm not quite with you. Could you repeat that? I'm afraid I don't quite see what you mean. I didn't quite catch that. Could you go over that again? I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'm sorry, I didn't hear. Which slide was it? Sorry, could you repeat that? Evading difficult or hostile questions Showing you understand Yes, I quite see your point ... Yes, it's something we've thought about a lot. That's an accurate observation ... I know it's difficult to accept the decision, ... Introducing an alternative point of view However, I know you'll appreciate ... But the company ... On the other hand, if we consider ... ... but the evidence is there ...
Body language Body language means communication with the movement or position of the human body. It can be conscious or unconscious. It is something that is noticed by everybody but is not always given enough attention. We sometimes ignore it and try to hide behind words, but we should never forget that we cannot fool everyone! Children react to body language because they experience the world through intuition. The same can be true for adults when feelings are involved. People who are in bad shape emotionally will often place great importance in it. In fact, they often pick up the smallest hint of a lapse in attention in the person they are speaking to. And they frequently jump to the conclusion that they are boring or a nuisance - thus compounding any sense of depression or poor self-esteem. A way to learn the secrets of body language is to watch television with the sound turned off and try to interpret what is being said simply from
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"Where's your next class?" he asked. I had to check in my bag. "Um, Government, with Jefferson, in building six." There was nowhere to look without meeting curious eyes. "I'm headed toward building four, I could show you the way..." Definitely over-helpful. "I'm Eric," he added. I smiled tentatively. "Thanks." We got our jackets and headed out into the rain, which had picked up. I could have sworn several people behind us were walking close enough to eavesdrop. I hoped I wasn't getting paranoid. "So, this is a lot different than Phoenix, huh?" he asked. "Very." "It doesn't rain much there, does it?" "Three or four times a year." "Wow, what must that be like?" he wondered. "Sunny," I told him. "You don't look very tan." "My mother is part albino." He studied my face apprehensively, and I sighed. It looked like clouds and a sense of humor didn't mix. A few months of this and I'd forget how to use sarcasm. We walked back around the cafeteria, to the south buildings by the gym
Stereotype is a fixed idea or image that many people have of a prticular type of person or thing, but which is not true in reality. The word comes from printing (describes the printing plate used to produce the same image over and over again). Culture shock: is precipitated (caused) by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of our social intercourse. Symptoms: Excessive washing of the hands. Excessive concern over drinking water, food, dishes and bedding. Fear of physical contact with attendants and servants. The absent, far-away stare (the tropical stare). A feeling of helplessness. Delay or refusal to learn the lg of the host country. Excessive fear of being cheated. Excessive concern over minor pains. Terrible longing to be back home. Reverse CS- re-entry shock- the unexpected confrontation with the familiar. Cultural dimensions. Non-verbal communication Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of communication through
The goals are drilling communicative skills, drilling and repeating simple forms (everyday language). It was a teacher-led interaction, they focused on language structures: complete sentences: questions and answers. No native language was used. The teacher encouraged students with compliments: Good job! Well-done! The teacher repeated yourself and asked students to repeat the sentence or question when the error occurred. · Humanistic Methods: The Total Physical Response (TPR) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZY6XpB214 TPR and Language Acquisition The students should enjoy the experience Students imitate the teacher nonverbally: physical movement to react to verbal input Students get ready to speak after about 1020 hours of instruction Teaching procedure: a) modelling, b) demonstration c) commands in random order to demonstrate comprehension, d) reading and writing commands, e) students issuing commands
in the evolution of human consciousness. The feelings of joy and love are intrinsically connected to that recognition. Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless. They not only had a scent that was delicate and pleasing to humans, but also brought a fragrance from the realm of spirit. Using the word “enlightenment” in a wider sense than the conventionally accepted one, we could look upon flowers as the enlightenment of plants. Any life-form in any realm – mineral, vegetable, animal, or human – can be said to undergo “enlightenment.” It is, however, an extremely rare
are assigned referents of a highly abstract sort, and do have a meaning, at least in part, by referring to what they supposedly refer to. We shall say more of Montague's system in chapter 10.) Objection 2 According to the Referential Theory, a sentence is a list of names. But a mere list of names does not say anything. (7) Fred Martha Irving Phyllis cannot be used to assert anything, even if Martha or Irving is an abstract entity rather than a physical object. One might suppose that if the name of an individual is concatenated with the name of a quality, as in (8) Ralph fatness the resulting string would have normal subjectpredicate meaning, say that Ralph is fat. (Early in his career, Bertrand Russell suggested that, by writing down a list of names for the right sorts of things in the right order, one would form the collective name of a state of affairs.) But in fact (8) is ungrammatical.
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