Social Distance: Relational Intimacy

Hello, subscribers!

This week, we are looking at social distance and how it influences communication across languages and language varieties!

When thinking about social distance, we suggest to think about relational intimacy. How close you are with someone can really inform expectations of how you communicate and what you communicate about.

Like with all other pragmatic concepts, how social distance operationalizes is dynamic across individuals and people groups. These resources were designed to help educators and learners alike explore this reality.

Oh! And check out the CASLS Spotlight at the end of this issue. It will take you to some free resources that we have for educators!

We hope you enjoy these resources.

Social Distance

What is social distance anyways?

Ideas for Implementation and Further Exploration:

Want to keep learning more? Here are some resources!

Try this quick mini lesson about social distance.

This activity connects with the video above and was designed to guide learners in thinking through how to communicate in order to minimize distance. Learners adapt textbook language to achieve that goal.

This activity and video were designed to support learners in studying language use in the workplace.

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