Interactional Sociolinguistics

Activities

Week 6

In-class Activity

Friends and Foes

Think of someone you get along with very well and someone you have difficulty getting along with. Try to remember some of the aspects of their conversational style and compare them with your own. Does this give you any insights into why you get along with the person you get along with, or don't get along with the person you do not get along with? 

Fieldwork (include this in your field journal)

Choose a famous person whom you can watch on TV or on video. Observe them and try to describe their conversational style based on the elements we talked about in the lecture. How does their conversational style affect the image that they have among the public. 

Text for Analysis (include this in your field journal)

Under Construction

Reflection (include this in your field journal)

Reflect on whether or not you have ever had a misunderstanding with someone based on differences in conversational style.