Ethnography of Speaking

Hi Everyone,

This post has a simple request and a more complicated one. First, I want to be sure that you read the Ethnography of Speaking reading. To that end, please make a comment on what you found interesting about either the Pentecostal church meeting example or the Papau New Guinea example of the kros. This can be brief.

Then, to practice the mnemonic device that we will use in the Language Analysis #2, I'd like to ask you to do a real quick ethnographic analysis of our classroom speech situation. We looked at this very briefly today when we talked about 'respect' and how it is shown in our classroom--that fit under "N"--norms of interaction.

So, what I'd like you to do is use the mnemonic device--SPEAKING--and analyze a speech event that takes place in the speech situation that is our class. Then, comment on one interesting element that you have uncovered via that device. Remember, this may be hard since you are participants in this speech situation and what is a socio-cultural expectation may seem 'just natural' to you. Try to step outside of your assumptions and look at it from an observer's angle.

Please do a new post by Sunday at midnight, then comment on two other posts by Tuesday before class.

Thanks,
Tiffany