Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

[She's downright perky this morning, and smiles easily at all the students.]


301--Theory

All righty, gang, now we get into something we can really chew on. Theory behind speech comm is backed by science: psychology, sociology, medicine, and behavioralism. Because of your grade level, we're going to start simple. You should have read about Michel Foucault in your book over the weekend, so I have one question for discussion today...and you can bet your boots we're going to discuss the heck out of it.

In a sender/message/receiver paradigm...who benefits?

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Regardless of message?

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Not really. If the message is something like, "Your grandmother's died," then there's the benefit if having that knowledge, but you won't see it like that.

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

And sender and receiver...how do they change the message? E, your favorite gerbil is dead. I got a call this morning. Who benefits from me being the sender here?

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

The person who called you, because they won't have to deal with my trauma over my dead gerbil. Depending on who found the gerbil, I might, because I might prefer you breaking the news to me than someone else.