A Hum­ble Peop­le

Star­ter :

In your group
dis­cuss what you con­sider im­portant in the way two peop­le com­mu­ni­ca­te with each other.
Food for thought:
eye-con­tact / non-ver­bal mes­sa­ges / feed­back / po­si­ti­ve sup­port / cri­ti­cism vs prai­se / time and place / “I”lan­gua­ge / ex­pres­sing emo­ti­ons / lis­ten­ing …

for il­lus­tra­ti­ve ma­te­ri­al see
Mar­tyn Ford, Peter Legon, The How To Be Bri­tish Collec­tion

Texte:
A Hum­ble Peop­le
Con­text 21 , Cor­nel­sen 2010
Seite 34/35
So­ci­al Dis-Ease
Sum­mit G8 , Schö­ningh 2010
Seite 25

Working with the texts

In the text the aut­hor deals with what she con­siders as the ty­pi­cal Bri­tish pro­blem of be­ha­ving ap­pro­pria­te­ly in so­ci­al si­tua­ti­ons or as she puts it the Bri­tish in­com­pe­tence in the field of so­ci­al in­ter­ac­tion .

au­tism
ago­ra­pho­bia An Eng­lish­man’s home is his cast­le
em­bar­rass­ment (oi- what you loo­king at)
in­su­la­ri­ty
awk­ward­ness
per­ver­se ob­li­quen­ess
emo­tio­nal con­s­ti­pa­ti­on
fear of in­ti­ma­cy
over-po­li­te
but­to­ned up
awk­ward­ly restrai­ned
loud
lou­tish
crude
vio­lent
ob­noxious

games, pubs, clubs, wea­ther-speak (Nice day, isn’t it), cy­ber­space, pets

Ma­te­ri­al 8: text­work: Con­cepts of na­tio­nal iden­ti­ty: Her­un­ter­la­den [doc] [89 KB]