I How do we know what our words have done are doing intra and interculturally II Speech acts vs conversation more generally conversational style and intergroup conflict Ethnomethods Topic shifting Turntaking Adjacency pairs III Transcription to see the structure and content of speech in the cultural contexts of our daily lives How we interpret the culture of what people do in talk from a transcript IV Announcements Midterm review sheet on moodle Paper topics due on moodle 1 How to do things with words in culturally specific ways Exs lies greetings compliments requests etc Don t assume your version of a speech act will work everywhere 2 Any compliment exchanges noted since last class 3 Compliments US vs Germany Andrea Golato Sample American Compliment exchange 2 A That s beautiful It really is B Thank you 4 Sample Compliment exchanges in Germany A aber heute abend hier war s sch n bei but it was nice this evening here at euch your place 13 B sch n that s nice A ich sach ihr habt ja so en sch nes 14 i said you have such a nice zwiebelmuster hier onion pattern here B joa ye s A brigens das fleisch exzel lent by the way the meat excel lent B super ne super right A exzellent excellent B joa 16 yeah 5 What might you predict when Germans and Americans interact 6 Sample German American interaction 25 Fr hst ck in Texas Tape 1 B063 1 D that s the best tea i ve i think i ve ever had D gazes at C with puzzled look 2 C great right 3 4 D uh that lemonny kinda yeah it s quite nice 5 C smile voice yeah we like it too 6 0 2 7 A what was the exact name of it it s just called orange tea 8 C lemon tea it s zitronentee 7 Performing and interpreting speech acts appropriately and effectively are culturally specific feats 8 Ethnography of Speaking the difficulty is that we have tried to relate language described largely as a formal isolate to culture described largely without reference to speaking Speaking like language is patterned functions as a system is describable by rules Dell Hymes1962 Ethnography of Speaking 9 Hymes Ethnography of Speaking Speaking is a cultural activity in its own right Variable across groups when we study another culture we must to some extent learn the norms for speaking ethnographic discovery of rules norms for speaking What categories of speech events and acts are recognized in a given group 10 Ethnography of Communication applied https www youtube com watch v cniJ6TIjyg Y 11 Intercultural misunderstandings From speech acts to stereotypes Different speech act norms Misunderstandings of others actions intentions Negative judgment of speaker Negative judgment of speaker s associated group 12 Many intercultural problems arise around differences in speech acts You ve been hired to improve relations between two groups with a focus on speech acts 1 What two groups would you focus on whose difficult interactions might be situated in different ways of speaking speech acts 2 Which speech act would you focus on as a site of miscommunication 13 Conversation as a highly normed activity Culturally specific ethnomethods 14 15 Conversational ethnomethods Ethnomethods when you meet someone for the first time at a social gathering https www youtube com watch v xGYzxDcS Jkw What happened 16 Ethnomethodological experiment Please get up sit next to and start a conversation with someone you have never really interacted with before 17 Post hoc write up 1 What happened 2 What seemed to go smoothly 3 Was anything awkward 4 Following Agar s discussion of ethnomethods describe the turntaking adjacency pairs topic selection 18 Conversing with someone who uses different ethnomethods Scollon and Scollon Anglos and Athabaskans 19 Studying ethnomethods Transcribing and analyzing interaction from transcripts 20 http www youtube com watch v xSKuOccV VKg 21 1 Who are these people 2 What are they doing 3 What s going on in this stretch of talk What speech acts are being done by each person 4 How do the ethnomethods work turntaking topic selection adjacency pairs 22 1 Kay Wang KW I wasn t very nice If I make a mistake my mother she make me apologize And our custom when you apologize to your mother you have to bring a cup of tea and say I m sorry But I purposely dropped that hot cup of tea on my mother s lap 2 3 CW hh 4 KW And I wasn t a good student I always lie to get out of school because lots of boyfriend after me 5 CW hehehe 6 KW That time I was still young I was not bad looking then 7 CW hehe 8 KW So what else Hurry hurry I want to go home Chen Wang CW How d you meet Grandpa KW I was a training nurse in a hospital He was there for hemorrhoid operation So when your grandpa see me your grandpa keep on asking me to get married And I said I don t like you You have bald headed 9 CW hahaha 10 KW I didn t like him because he s ugly But one thing about your grandpa he s very smart That s it No more question CW hahaha Just a couple more questions KW Short one CW Short ones CW Short ones Tell me about working at Bloomingdales What did you do 11 KW You know what I do I m not gonna to tell you CW No you have hahaha you have to talk about it KW I am a detective 12 CW hahaha 13 KW I got the very famous designer I better not mention her name 14 CW haha 15 KW She stole a dress three thousand some dollar So I walk out the store I said Would you like to pay me that dress 16 CW haha 17 KW She said Do you know who I am I said Ya you re a thief 18 CW hahaha 19 KW So that s my life CW hahaha Do you have any regrets KW No What should I regret 20 CW haha 21 KW No I think I m old enough to do what I would like And that s it 22 CW hahaha 23 So where s the languaculture in this stretch of talk hint not only in content 24 Transcription and ethnomethods How is transcription useful in the study of ethnomethods according to Agar Potentially useful for your papers and presentations 25 Improving relations between two groups with a focus on speech acts and ethnomethods Groups and speech acts to focus on as a site of miscommunication 26 Language in ICC Given recent readings lectures discussions 1 How language matters in intercultural communication 2 situations where attention to these discourse differences could help 3 ideas you like the most 4 ideas that trouble you 27 Midterm questions 28