Legal Documents

On Thursday we took a look at a legal document and talked about it a bit. I just wanted to point out a few more things on this type of discourse. People always wonder why it is so hard to interpret the meaning of these documents. This is exactly why they are confusing, to keep someone down from elevating to the same level as "The Man" as someone put it in class. Confusing people with in this way allows the writer or institution to maintain their authority over the common people. So in my opinion discourse is a type of force even though it isn't physical if know how to use your knowledge as an advantage.

Post 3--Critical Discourse Analysis

This week, we started talking about a direction that some discourse analysis has taken into critically looking at how language use (discourse) intersects with issues of power, ideology and social institutions. It's not a particular 'method' like Ethnography is, but is rather an approach, or a purpose for the analysis.



We discussed issues of how language use organizes concepts of reality, how different discourses compete with each other to determine reality, how institutions maintain control through discourse and how ideologies are 'naturalized' through discourse.



In this blog, I want you to explore any of these concepts that you find interesting, confusing, irritating, etc. These can be big ideas, so I just want to provide some space for general exploration of them. Have at it!



Thanks,

Tiffany

ethnography

Ethnography of speaking

SPEECH IN COGNITIVE AND EXPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
In the study of ethnography , presumably three things will hold true: 1. the discipline of linguistics will continue to contribute studies of the history, structure, and use of languages; 2. in other disciplines, linguistic concepts and practices will be qualified, reinterpreted, subsumed, and perhaps sometimes re-diffused in changed form into linguistics; 3. linguistics will remain the discipline responsible for coordinating knowledge about verbal behavior from the viewpoint of language itself.

In our concern is the role of phonological habits in the perception and interpretation of sounds, there exists an abundance of theory, technique, and experimental work. The concern is the role of semantic habits in perception and interpretation of experience, there is no such abundance. Some experimental testing has been done (see comment in Hymes 1961b), but we cannot adequately investigate the role of semantic habits in ordinary behavior without knowledge of the semantic habits that are available to play a role, and such knowledge can be gained only by description in relation to native contexts of use. In other words, we need a semantic analysis that is a part of ethnography.As a narrative reflection of reality ethnography requests for a structural analysis, achieving the economics of the rules of a grammar in relation to a series of analyses of texts. As we can see from our texts we saw two different reflections of the speaking. One is a closest community (church members in specific region South London) and another is a examples of the phenomena as a “Kros” definition of the New Guinea. Different kinds of the interactions, lingustical expressions (as an semantical level). How do social-cultural expectations reflect on the speech and behavior people. As the closest ties of the definitions of the mental system in the anthropological view. How is it different from our lingustical behavior in the class? Freedom of the speech, however politeness and official expression, following the main topic of the class theme. All that 3 variable lingustical situations give as a good observations about ethnography and relation ethnography with psychology and anthropology.

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