Calendar for Week 7: 3/2, 3/4, 3/6

Meet with informant last week or this (outside of class)

Read:
Modalities of Turn Taking

Calendar for Week 6: 2/23, 2/25, 2/27

Meet with your informants outside of class this week or next!

Read:
Polite Fictions 41-59
Technical Editor as Diplomat

For Friday 2/20

1) You will have to each sign off on affidavits for each other which I am sending you saying what you did for the project and how much time you spent on it. 

2) Write up five do's and don'ts -amalgamated in one document. Phrase them accordingly-don't go shirtless in public, don't use your left hand to touch anything, etc. Don't make something that wasn't phrased prescriptively by the author, however, as if it were. Find the do's and don'ts that are presented that way. 

3) Go through each 'rule' and say what kind of information is missing about the system of figuring out what exactly to do and say in a very particular context-what is th List e grammar of greeting in your target culture? How do gender, age, race, religion, closeness, power, etc. figure into the system? Right now you're not giving answers, you're just asking good questions.  

4) Describe at least one significant framing difference about your target culture that you found in your literature. 

5) Provide your bibliography for all the sources consulted and indicate which quotes come from which sources and which group member (initial them or type in who the contributor was).  The bibliography should be alphabetised and amalgamated, obviously. 

6) Also send me an electronic copy so I can put comments for everyone on the blog. Minimally face threatening ones. (: 

 

Calendar for Week 5: 2/16, 2/18, 2/20

Read for Monday 2/16 and the rest of the week:

Polite Fictions 21-40
Schema for Schema
Communicative Interactions

Due Wednesday 2/18 Preliminary Lit Review & 3 minute presentation on do's and don'ts

Due Friday 2/20 Write up of Preliminary Lit Review revised after presentation

Calendar for Next Week

2/9 By Monday: Choose project groups, report to ee

Read:

1) Polite Fictions 1-20
2) Language & Culture (all), the article by Deborah Tannen

We'll be discussing these all week.

Looking forward! (:

You have a reading assignment for Monday

so you should go buy your course pack today

Your Course Pack is Available! (:

for just $11.15 at 2307 Texas Avenue South (just south of Target on the opposite side of the street) and go to the bookstore (Texas Aggieland Bookstore) which is attached to copy corner's building.

now, there are still going to be a few 'chaplets' i send you by email written by me for you, but they won't be too extensive or frequent.