Interactional Sociolinguistics
Activities
Week 4
In-class Activity
1. Watch the video clip and fill out the charts:
| FTA/ Face threatened (H+/-, S+/-) | Face Strategies (don't do FTA, off-record, bald, with +/- politeness) | |
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| What do they think they are 'doing'? | How do they show it | |
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2. Watch the clip from Roseanne again. Identify the interactive frames and the contextualization cues participants use to signal these frames.
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Fieldwork (include this in your field journal)
Observe two or three groups (or pairs) of people having conversations and try to guess what they are 'doing' (what kind of conversation they are having). How can you tell? Can you divide the conversation into different parts?
Text for Analysis (include this in your field journal)
Under
Construction
Reflection (include this in your field journal)
Think about a time when you have used 'framing' strategically to make an activity seem like another activity. How did you do it?