Comparative social interaction: Tzeltal Mayans and Rossel Islanders face-to-face
Wichtige Details
Datum / Dauer: Montag, 21.06.2010
- Sprache
- Englisch / English
- Durchführung
- In Präsenz
- Veranstaltungsort
- Simón-Bolívar-Saal
This talk attempts to shed some light on the interplay between universals and culture-specifics in social interaction by looking in detail at interactions in two distinct cultural contexts: the Mayans of southern Mexico and the Rossel Islanders of Papua New Guinea.
Dr. Penelope Brown (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) focuses on a particular mechanism: the "feedback" and response system - the set of rules and expectations about how to do minimal responses during conversation -and shows how different linguistic repertoires, gaze practices, and cultural preoccupations combine to produce quite distinct "styles" of interaction in these two cultural contexts.
Dr. Brown is Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.