Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

[She's in a fairly good mood today, sipping a latte and dressed in a warm sweater with extra long sleeves.]


201--Speech
Boys are stupid and girls have cooties is the topic of the week. This is supposed to be funny, people. Lighten up. Deliver, now.

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301--Non Verbal

Aristotle said that rhetoric is finding and using, in a given situation, the availible means of persuasion.

Let's discuss the rhetoric of the body in the context of what we've learned so far this term. Persuasion, trust, authority, power...all these things factor in to our subconsciuos reactions. Sometimes the message is misinterpreted between the sender and receiver because of differences in cultural meaning.

Rhetoric of body, people. Let's roll.

Comments

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

So... A good example of what you're talking about would be someone waving to someone else as a welcoming gesture and not knowing that waving is the other person's equivilent of flipping the bird?

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack [Harkness] cracks up.

[miss-monochrome.livejournal.com]

::laughs:: Trust me, the mistake works both ways. Took me a while to figure out that the middle finger apparently *isn't* some kind of a greeting.

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

Wow. I bet that caused a problem or two.

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Right, Jack. You know about showing the soles of your feet to people from Saudi Arabia?

[wannabelawyer.livejournal.com]

What about looking people in the eye? Here we think it's kind of rude if people don't look at you when you're talking to them, but the opposite is true other places, right?

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Very true, Lidsey. Some cultures consider the eyes to be a direct route to the soul, and unwavering eye cotact means you're trying to steal that soul, or in some other way possess them or take....control. [She fades off, her eyes glazing over. Shaking her head to clear it...] But go on. Run with it.

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*Elizabeth is watching CJ closely and her eyes narrow slightly*

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

I know that you shouldn't do it but I don't remember why.

I did however used to know an American woman who lived in Saudi Arabia, she told me once about a time she reached for a fruit or something in a market there and had stones pelted at her because a skin gap could be seen between her glove and sleeve.