Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

301--3rd period

Honesty

Today we're going to play a game. I'll give you the why behind it tomorrow. This is called three truths and a lie. Please think of threee personal facts, they can be simple our outrageous, and one lie that sounds plausible. Tell us and we'll try to guess based on what we know about you so far this term. It's very simple. three truths and a lie, and then guess. Have fun today gang...I'm playing too. Go.

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401--5th period

You all heard this last term, but now you've grown so we're going to revisit deconstructionism and post-structuralism. Theory behind speech comm is backed by science: psychology, sociology, medicine, and behavioralism. Once again I only 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?

Comments

401

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Derrida and Foucault...how can you not love them?

Re: 401

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"The person that benefits is the one that has something to gain," Allie said. "So it depends on what the message is and what the ramifications of the message are for the involved parties."

Re: 401

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"What if neither of them have something to gain? What if the sender's passing on a message that has nothing to do with them, and the receiver gains nothing?"

Re: 401

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Is that ever the case, E?"

Re: 401

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"If someone is passing on a message that the receiver already knows," Elizabeth suggested.

Re: 401

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Why doesn't the receiver stop the sender midmessage then?"

Re: 401

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"Because if it's not their message that they're sending, they feel obligated to do as they said they would do and pass it on."

Re: 401

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Ooh, tell me more about obligation."

Re: 401

[wannabelawyer.livejournal.com]

"Well, until they've got the whole message, the receiver might not know they weren't getting any new information."

Re: 401

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Good point, Lindsey. What are the conversational implacature cues the receiver might take to understand when the end of the message is, and there is no new information?"