Chaptr 3- Organizing Talk Flashcards
Is an ongoing project of meaning-making and the extent to which an individual or a group or category of individuals actually contributes to meaning depends on their ability to get their contributions heard and attended to.
Human Discourse
Dangerous in a community that depends on a cooperation for survival.
Conflict
Is seen as something that professionals engage in,.
Shoptalk
Is seen as ‘idle talk’, groundless rumor, tittle-tattle- to discuss matters relation to someone
Gossip
Young men is using ______ to establish their own (heterosexual) masculinity and to enforce certain norms of masculinity.
Homophobic discourse
Descends from Old English ‘gad sia’ which originally meant something similar to godparent or supportive friend. (Deborah Jones, 1980)
Gossip
Suggests that any informal talk among close women friends counts as gossip whether or not it focuses on reporting and evaluating activities of absent parties.
Jennifer Coates (1988)
Argues that women’s words enable them to exercise real power in local matters of some consequence, however such power is limited to which it can apply.
Susan Harding (1975)
Canonically involves giving reasons and evidence and using rational principles of inference to support a position. Q
Argument
Seen as more emotional, primarily a manifestation of ‘temper’ and often leading to a rapture in friendly relations among participants.
Quarrel
Claimed that ‘arguing has a more personal orientation in general, whereas arguing is essentially focused on the subject matter …quarreling (involves) a struggle of wills and display of tempers’
Weirzbicka (1987)
According to Keith Basso (1972), in the Apache community of Cibecue, Arizona, _________ is a culturally specific way to deal with interpersonal uncertainty.
Silence
The interpretative schemes that people apply to integration. (Erving Goffman, 1974)
Frames
Are conventional text types distinguished on the basis of typical content and internal organization (speech events)
Genres
