COM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deborah Tannen, General Semantics, Eye Contact
16 Aug 2016
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Every day that we don"t have a quiz: write 1. 5 pages applying the theoretical concept from class to some experience/movie/friend in my own life. Goals of the study of language: learn how to think more clearly, speak and write more effectively, listen and read more clearly. Wiio"s laws: communication usually fails, except by accident. If communication cannot fail, it still most usually fails. a. iii. If communication seems to succeed in the intended way, there"s a misunderstanding a. iv. The more we communicate, the faster misunderstandings propagate. I"m going to do the dishes now cool. He gave a response that she did not want. She wants him to offer to help her. She wants his involvement, wants to know she"s loved and he care. How people organize messages to support inferences about the relationship. Isolated/ unconnected incidents for gary, for brooke the events are all connected and symptomatic of something. Women make more eye contact, sustained longer than men.
