Language

The information below is to get you thinking about possibilities. How could it help you investigate your choice of topic? If you are American, you could look at one of the wordless languages used by a First Nation. If you are French, you could look at French gestures. Look through the sites below for information that could be useful. However, remember that you can search further yourself, by googling key words (ideas, concepts and/or people).

Do remember, you are only choosing **ONE** aspect! = = =Wordless=

Body language
Body language is both cultural and cross-cultural. Think about it. What gestures and/or facial expressions are used by everybody? Which ones are specific to particular countries? http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/B/bodytalk/telling.html http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/B/bodytalk/science.html

Communicating with gestures http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/body_language.php Gestures in France http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa020901a.htm

Sign language
[|Code Talkers]

[|The Navajo Windtalkers] also http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/nativeamerican01/code.html

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Social dialects (languages based on social situations)
[|Nushu] (China)

African American English or Ebonics (United States) http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lg/lg449/AAEgenres.htm http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/definitions/aave.html http://www.answers.com/topic/african-american-vernacular-english

//Clueless// (A Californian social dialect) [|http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=valley girl]

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 * Chinese characters
 * Korean characters
 * Arabic
 * Russian