MCLS 30420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Active Listening
11 Apr 2017
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Foreign language and culture studies - mcls 30420. Any language variety that typifies a group of speakers with a given standard language. Phonological, lexical, and (too a lesser extent) syntactic: phonological = accents, lexical = crawfish, crawdad, crayfish, syntactic = you guys, you, you all, y"all. Each individual"s own unique set of dialects, in relation to microcultural attributes. The idea that men and women, regardless of macroculture, communicate differently. Men and women have different objectives in communication and different communicative intents. Feminine genderlect: associated with a desire to establish connection and symmetry in communication. Male genderlect: associated with a desire to establish independence, status, and competition. In conversation, women deliberately avoid conflict and open confrontation while men deliberately use it. While men engage in listening, women engage in active listening, as indicated through greater degree of finishing the speakers sentence, interjecting with things like yeah, um hm, right and so forth.
