week 4

Part 1

We first did a really awesome activity to explain language. We did a wordle, which mine is below, and I had a lot of words for language. We then had to build a bridge with our classmates. Jackie broke us up into teams and had one team stay in one room and one team go into the other room. We had to explain to each other how to build the bridge, but we could only send one person into the hall way at a time and then they had to explain to us what they said. Needless to say the bridges did not look alike. I knew they wouldn’t because of course nobody is going to remember exactly what they heard or exactly what they built so our bridges did not look like a mirror like they were supposed to. In the power point it says “ communication is easy to do but difficult to do well”, and it’s so true everybody communicates in some way it’s just how well they do it, and how well someone understands them. I was gone for the second day of class but looking over the power point looks like we did I-language. Some examples were you hurt me to I feel hurt when you ignore what I say. We talked a lot about language. Then we started talking about speech communities, when you share norms with people. Women and men are in different categories. Your friends are probably in the same speech communities, people that you have things in common with.

Part 2

Communication to show:

Respect: A person shows respect by serving for their country,  opening doors for someone, being polite, and overall just being nice to people is respect.

Support: Helping family, helping others, I think a big role in support is the word “Helping”

Love: Caring for others, Marriage, and showing that you care.

Ambition: Going to college, following that dream job, getting your work done, working hard.

Dissatisfaction: This one is hard:, Maybe being angry, showing that you don’t care.