Calendar for Week11: 4/6, 4/8, holiday on 4/10

Apply your diagnostic with your informant and other subjects outside of class

Read:
Stigma 66-104

Friday: NO CLASS (:

Calendar for Week 10: 3/30, 4/1, 4/3

Due Monday: Report to class what you're doing for your diagnostic and submit to ee

Read:
1) Polite Fictions 41-59
2) Stigma 41-66

Calendar for Week 9: 3/23, 3/25/3/27

Focus on designing your own diagnostic

What aspects of each reading so far will you incorporate in your diagnostic?

Read:
Stigma 1-40

Sprink Break

Spring Break March 16-20

Calendar for Week 8: 3/9, 3/11, 3/13

Due Monday: Ist Informant Presentations 5-7 minutes

Read:
Polite Fictions 62-79

Wednesday: MIDTERM EXAM

Friday: Midterm returned

Peru Group: Tiana, BJ, Whitney C.

1. Turn taking-Do you ever feel like you cannot keep up in a conversation in America?
2. Do Americans tend to interrupt you?
3. What kinds of visual signs/signals do you used to inform individuals and groups of when to start/stop talking or change the subject or anything else?
4. How is turn regulated/How do you know when to talk?
5. Who is allowed to talk to who in order to be socially acceptable?
6. Are there stipulations as to how do address someone or greet someone?
7. When someone talks at the same time as you, is one person assumed to step down?
8. How is this addressed by the rest of the group and how do they perceive it?

China Group: Martyn, Kimberly, Michael, Melora

1. When listening to someone else speaking, how do you affirm that you are listening to what they are saying?
2. How big of a gap do you leave between speakers before you resume or begin talking?
3. Does your culture have any specific affixes/prefixes or titles (such as for family members) when addressing them? If so, when do you use them and where?
4. Who is it most proper to address first in a group of people (is it based on age, status, family, or whom you are most comfortable with)?
5. When answering a question, do you repeat the question when answering or rephrase the question in your answer?
6. Do you ever ask a question that is really a demand (imperative)?
7. Do you ever switch between polite/formal speech to informal speech in the same conversation?
8. How long does a relationship with someone have to be before you speak informally with them?
9. As you grow older, do you convey more politeness r take on more informal speech when speaking to your parents?
10. How do you respond to someone insulting themselves?
11. What do you say when you enter someone’s home as a guest?