HESP 120 Lecture 4: Human Communication

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Hearing and Speech Sciences
• Course: HESP 120
• Professor: Johnson

Document Summary

Hesp120: human communication/non-human communication, communication and culture/gender, how does culture effect communication, culture impacts the ways in which people communicate as well as the strategies they use to communicate. The different life experiences people have based on cultural norms also affect the interpretation they have of messages delivered by others. Infatuation: to what extent do men and women use language differently, asymmetries lead to misinterpretations, tannen"s basic premise: Men engage in a world perceived as a hierarchical social order in which a man is either one; up or one down; In this world conversations are negotiations in which people try to achieve and maintain the upper hand if they can and not be pushed around. Life is a struggle to preserve independence and avoid failure. Power and accomplishment frame interactions: women, tannen uses herself as an example. I, on the other hand, was approaching the world as many women do; as an individual in a network of connections.