Title: TEACHING SPEECH BEHAVIOR: VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
Abstract: Abstract.Paper considers some problems of foreign language teaching and learning. Authors focus onimportance of cultural peculiarities of nonverbal signs that accompany or replace the verbal ones in communication. Meanings of nonverbal signs in different cultures often are not the same. This can lead to communicative misunderstandings, or communication failures. In the process of intercultural communication, nonverbal aspect is an integral part of it, and actively interacts with the verbal, therefore, it needs to be taught, as well as we teach grammar or vocabulary. Authors proposed classification of nonverbal means of communication. This classification considers possibility or impossibility of substituting the nonverbal signs by the verbal ones or combining them in a communicative act. Authors also applied «enantiosemia» – to date, a purely linguistic term – to denote semantical opposition of nonverbal signs. Since the same nonverbal signs have opposite meanings in different cultures, authors introduce a new aspect of enantiosemy – phenomenon usually correlated to morphology and vocabulary: interculturalnonverbal enantiosemy.Key words: nonverbal, intercultural communication, language competence, nonverbal interculturalenantiosemy, Russian as a foreign language
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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