This paper will talk about one communication situation occurred with two teenaged kids and pick two best communication theory applications to apply to the situation when a 16-years old high school girl, Molly, told her 17-years old boyfriend, Macky, that she is pregnant. At that point, there were tensions and arguments between the two whether to abort the fetus or not. They both feel push and pull of conflicting desires through life and relationship. The two communication theories would be Relational Dialectics Theory by Leslie Baxter and Barbara Montgomery and Face Negotiation Theory by Stella Ting-Toomey; all are from the textbook that was used in the class, “Introducing Communication Theory-Analysis and Application.”
Relational Dialectics …show more content…
Totality suggests that people in relationship are interdependent-when something happens to one member in relationship, another member will be affected. This will impact Molly And Macky’s relationship because their roles as parents like take responsibilities and care of a child. Their friends have to deal with Molly and Macky’s absences due to be with a baby. They should be acknowledges the interdependence of people in a relationship. They also deal with the change of the future plan due to pregnancy. In other opinion, that is a part of human nature, which is called ‘praxis’ when human are choice-makers. Molly and Macky made a decision to have sex and it was their choice to not practice safe …show more content…
This has impacted on real and ideal dialectic relationship between Molly and Macky because they used to reflect on what kind of life they want in their future. They imagined and visualized their ideal lives would be happily married in a nice shelter with stabilized jobs which will succeed their lives, however, real dialectic is when the news about baby came out and they suddenly changed their ideal dialectic life to a real dialectic life. They couldn’t have an ideal dialectic life like a famous happily families on television show, like “Full House” and “Little House on the Prairie.” Molly and Macky’s real dialectic life would be like “Teen Mom” whose labeled as second Baby Boomers generation since 1940’s after World War II ended and all army came back home to their wives and made a lot of babies because men stayed dried at the war. That’s how “Baby Boomers” term existed in the
Relational Dialectics …show more content…
Totality suggests that people in relationship are interdependent-when something happens to one member in relationship, another member will be affected. This will impact Molly And Macky’s relationship because their roles as parents like take responsibilities and care of a child. Their friends have to deal with Molly and Macky’s absences due to be with a baby. They should be acknowledges the interdependence of people in a relationship. They also deal with the change of the future plan due to pregnancy. In other opinion, that is a part of human nature, which is called ‘praxis’ when human are choice-makers. Molly and Macky made a decision to have sex and it was their choice to not practice safe …show more content…
This has impacted on real and ideal dialectic relationship between Molly and Macky because they used to reflect on what kind of life they want in their future. They imagined and visualized their ideal lives would be happily married in a nice shelter with stabilized jobs which will succeed their lives, however, real dialectic is when the news about baby came out and they suddenly changed their ideal dialectic life to a real dialectic life. They couldn’t have an ideal dialectic life like a famous happily families on television show, like “Full House” and “Little House on the Prairie.” Molly and Macky’s real dialectic life would be like “Teen Mom” whose labeled as second Baby Boomers generation since 1940’s after World War II ended and all army came back home to their wives and made a lot of babies because men stayed dried at the war. That’s how “Baby Boomers” term existed in the