Applied Sciences COM 4430- Weekly Assignment 3- CH.5

Answer each question separately, use references and chapter 5 examples.

1.  Evaluate a specific listening situation using the​ Sapir-Whorf and Bernstein hypothesis. What was the​context? What was the​ speaker’s main​ goal? Was the speaker​ credible? 

2.  If thinking is​ universal, how does culture and language affect the way different groups of humans​ think? 

3.  Explain the difference between restricted and elaborated codes in the Bernstein hypothesis.

4.  In what employee positions is knowledge of a foreign language more crucial for a​ company? Why?

5.  What does it mean to say two languages do not have vocabulary​ equivalence? What does it mean to say the same language does not have vocabulary​ equivalence?