△Non-Japanese Communication Strategies[3467]

＜授業のねらい及び具体的な達成目標＞

The objective of this course is to develop the students’ abilities to communicate in settings where Japanese language, Japanese customs, and Japanese discursive formations are not the controlling elements in the interaction process.

＜授業計画及び準備学習＞

In order to achieve the aims of this course, students will apply critical theory based analytic methods to cultural constructions inherent in communication processes so as to devise efficient hodological maps. To that end, the following concepts, theories, and strategies will be introduced, developed, and practiced over the course of the semester: concepts related to general linguistic formations, Japanese linguistic formations, Japanese discursive formations, binary oppositional thought patterns, non-ethnocentric thinking processes, cultural observation and analysis techniques and methodologies, and the implementation of non-Japanese communication strategies.

Week 1: Orientation and overview of course
Weeks 2-7: Concepts related to how language and communication systems function
Saussurean Theory of Linguistics; Sign Systems
Foucauldian Discursive Formations
Lacanian Concepts of Language, Identity, and Symbolic Order
Burroughs’ Theory of the “Word Virus”
Weeks 8-9: Derridian Theories
Differance and Binary Oppositional Thought Patterning
Transcendental Signified Based Systems
Weeks 10-11: Examination of Japanese language and culture
Japanese linguistic formations
Japanese discursive formations
Japanese cultural systems
Weeks 12-15: Application of theories and analysis
Non-ethnocentric thinking processes
Techniques and methods for analyzing cultural constructions
Practical implementation of theories to non-Japanese situations

＜成績評価方法及び水準＞

Students will be evaluated on their homework, course work, and projects.

＜教科書＞

No text is required for this course.

＜オフィスアワー＞

Shinjuku Campus: Wednesdays & Thursdays lunch time and by appointment.

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