Conversation

will remind her of the 24-48 hour response. Shelly needs to know if she is in a dangerous situation she needs to notify the approiate authorities like police, fire, and ambulance. It is also possible that Shelly may have misinterpret a casual conversation for a possible friendship. I had an agent who I honestly partake in…

on their phones, it is difficult not to think whether or not their ability to communicate with others is compromised or improved as a result of technology. In the film Being Alone Together it suggests that technology has made people afraid of conversations because they take place right in front of an individual and their initial response to a question or statement is said because they do not have the time or ability to think deeper about what they want to say or change what they might have said…

American couple. The American man and his girlfriend Jig are on vacation. They sit waiting at a train station in Spain next to the Ebro valley. The couple drink together and talk about the hills which “look like white elephants” (Hemingway). As the conversation goes on the American man brings up an operation which Jig was to undergo. The couple then argues whether or not Jig should get the operation. This story is mostly dialogue and told from a dramatic point of view which leaves it up to the…

The idea of facework in the personal realm is important for everyone to understand. The mission is to raise our consciousness about the level of facework involved in communication. I learned that there are four levels of communication: the act, conversation, episode, and the lifescript. Who knew that there could be so many levels of communication? Personally, I did not know there are this many levels of communication to take into consideration. Firstly, a communication act is a statement that…

Sport the Social Style In the first conversation, just in the first sentence we can already tell that the woman has an emotive style by her voice tone and her hand gestures. She is talking about doing something spontaneous, and she is expressing it in a highly enthusiastic way. She has a people sociabilty since she is trying to organize this nice trip for everyone, and show her emotions. She has a high dominance, she initiated the demand and she knows what she wants and, even though the other…

focal child, and Betty Yu, the teacher. The videos were recorded nine months apart and shows the incredible language development that occurs with Mia. Both videos show Betty and Mia making pudding. However, the dynamics of their relationship and conversation change in the second video. By this time, Mia has evolved from stage 2 to stage 4 of communicative development. In video one, Mia is two and a half years old. The setting of the video is her family home. Mia’s mother and father are in…

This last journal will cover some thoughts that I had in the class after I wrote my reflection journal 2. There were many interesting topics we discussed in the class during this period but in this journal, I would deliver my experience and thought regarding to three topics, Diglossia, willingness to communicate and some thoughts about the process of writing my paper. I was introduced with the term diglossia by Marwa in her presentation and she consistently focused on this topic for her…

compliment into a sarcastic, snide remark. The fact that often, people are unaware of their own body movement and posture during a conversation, is a weakness. Sometimes, people can unknowingly communicate a message. Maybe the woman at the bar mentioned earlier initiates a small amount of contact on accident and the man takes that as a positive thing and keeps the conversation going even though she is not interested. Now there is a misunderstanding that can impact communication in a negative…

meeting, ten days later, he seemed eager to tell me something. He told me how much he had been thinking about our conversation about expertise and how important it had been to him to discuss this with me. He said it was ‘like a load off my shoulders’ that ‘I don’t have to do what you say, that we can work things out together’. He said that he felt more confident in himself. The conversation had been very significant for me as well and I remember it clearly to this day. Trevor’s words brought…

Daniel Maltz and Ruth Borker talk about the different communication patterns of males and females. They talk about problems with male and female conversations and how we have a difficult time picking up on the opposite sexes verbal tendencies. The authors give an in depth analysis on how male and female think on a psychological level during a conversation. Women have many key tendencies in the way they communicate that make them completely different from men. First, “women display a greater…