Nonverbal representation

ASSIGNMENT 1: Study the texts below, identify stereotypes and dwell on the nonverbal representation. Note that gestures (especially emblems) have a verbal complex known to all members of the given culture; other nonverbal signs are usually rendered in language expressions. But we know that most often all nonverbal signs are not accompanied by word complex in oral speech, but they are easily understood by members of the same culture. The first has been done for you.

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Text 1: A well-dressed gentleman was waiting. He introduced himself as Sterling Bitch or something of that order. Clyde looked at his business card. Bintz. Sterling Bintz. Attorney-at-Law. From Philadelphia, PA.

Mr. Bintz was about forty years old, short and thin, intense, with the smugness that Yankees can’t help but exude when they venture into decaying towns of the Deep South.

How could anyone live like this? Their smirks seemed to ask.

Clyde disliked him immediately, but he also wanted to return to his vodka, so he offered Sterling a cocktail. Sure, why not?

Source: (John Grisham, the Appeal. A Dell Book, 2008. p. 121

Nonverbal representation: description of Mr. Bintz’s appearance, i.e. nonverbal features (his age, height, figure, face expression – smirks) represent stereotype of a Yankee (Pay attention to the plural form of this stereotype.

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Text 2: Lane Walker said, bowing and smiling, edging toward James with his hand on the elbow of the Mexican, "Mr. Page, let me introduce an old friend of mine, Father Rafe Hernandez." "Father, is it?" James said unsociably, making no attempt to hide his dislike of foreigners. He had no intention of shaking the man's hand. The Mexican, to James' intense annoyance, did not offer it.

Source: Gardner, October Light, p. 258.

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Text 3: "They been wrong from the beginning, f'the beginning of time," he said happily, all rolling-eyed darkie.

Source: Gardner. October Light. P. 158.

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Text 4: She [African American who came to the police department to bring a proof that her boss was killed] opened the purse then and drew out the clip of paper she'd found. He [the policeman] merely looked at it? Not reaching for it? Forcing her to rise partly out of her chair to hand it to him. Racist, she thought, and felt better.

Source: Gardner. October Light.

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Text 5: … A long rambling conversation produces the bare bones of their story: a flick on the side of the neck (Russian shorthand for drinking), some fractured references to families who did not want them, to accidents or a vague something that cost them their jobs. Then the final catastrophe — …that they became faceless as well as homeless, viewed as an annoyance by officials or as "garbage," in the words of one cop, Andrei.

P. Quinn-Judge. Tales from Cold Mountain. In Time, Oct. 10, 2006

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Text 6: gestures

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ASSIGNMENT 2: Summarize various nonverbal representations of ethnic stereotypes and reflect on the role of ethnic stereotypes in intercultural communication.

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