Learning Objectives

7-1: Explain the relationship between language and culture.

7-2: Explain what makes the structure of the human language so unique.

7-3: Compare and contrast elaborated and restricted codes.

7-4: Compare and contrast direct versus indirect styles, affective versus instrumental styles, personal versus contextual styles, and elaborate, exacting, and succinct styles of language use across cultures.

7-5: Cogently discuss and compare sex differences in verbal language in Japan, China, and India.

7-6: Compare and contrast U.S. dialects.