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this week

this week. Continuing to map out the territory of our inquiry. Today in class. Recap questions from Wednesday Super-speedy review of Peters’ “Problem” Activity: mapping Duranti on Peters. questions from Wednesday.

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  1. this week Continuing to map out the territory of our inquiry

  2. Today in class • Recap questions from Wednesday • Super-speedy review of Peters’ “Problem” • Activity: mapping Duranti on Peters

  3. questions from Wednesday • How do power dynamics affect who the burden of communication lies on? Are there certain types of power which hold more influence (i.e., economic power, power in numbers, technology, etc.)? • Would we like each other less if we completely understood each other (as Peters alludes to on p. 30) and what would be the consequences? • Do you think your cultural experiences have made you more open-minded? How have these experiences affected your ability or inability to communicate?

  4. questions from Wednesday • How was solipsism initially brought into [Peters’] discussion as a concept of communication? The ideas seem to defy one another. • Are representatives of expert rule, such as corporations, trying to gain back control over the public to bring society back from an educated public to expert rule? • What is in store for the future and will [communication] continue to be a struggle?

  5. questions from Wednesday • Is communication an all or nothing concept? If the receiver gets the gist of the information is it communication on some level? Or does the loss of part of the communication make it miscommunication? According to models of . . . • management of mass opinion (propaganda) • elimination of semantic fog (simplifying language – Richards & Ogden) • vain sallies from the citadel of the self (solipsism – Kafka) • disclosure of otherness (constitution of relationships – Heidegger) • orchestration of action (community of partaking – Dewey) • Information theory • Therapeutic self-expression • Delight in difference (Peters)

  6. Mapping Duranti onto Peters in words and space • Count off into 8 groups • You have 25 minutes to come up with • an explanation according to Duranti and related to Peters (write out to turn in) • an illustration (e.g., an example, a performance, an illustration on the board, etc.) of your concept/question’s answer to present in a 5 minute presentation to the class. (Everyone in the group must participate in the presentation in some capacity.)

  7. Duranti’s “Diversity” • Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (a.k.a. the linguistic relativity hypothesis) • Lakoff and Johnson on metaphor • the “price” of equating cognitive and linguistic categories and the 1st two plans for escape (67) • the “price” of equating cognitive and linguistic categories and the 2nd two plans for escape (68) • ‘language’ vs. ‘dialect’ vs. ‘variety’ • linguistic repertoire • speech community • heteroglossia

  8. for Wednesday • Re-read Duranti’s “Linguistic Diversity” • Be on the lookout for the topics and concepts discussed in class and in the microessays • Post responses to at least two microessays by 9pm Tuesday • Read the discussion board before class and come with at least one specific question for discussion (on paper).

  9. Review Peters’ “Problem” • solipsism/telepathy • 5 takes on 'communication' in the 1920s • 2 post-war views of 'communication' • Peters' vision of 'communication'

  10. From the OED • solipsism: The view or theory that self is the only object of real knowledge or the only thing really existent. • telepathy: The communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognised channels of sense

  11. 5 from the ’20s Communication as . . . • management of mass opinion • propaganda • elimination of semantic fog • simplifying language – Richards & Ogden • vain sallies from the citadel of the self • solipsism – Kafka • disclosure of otherness • constitution of relationships – Heidegger • orchestration of action • community of partaking – Dewey

  12. 2 post-war & 1 Peters’ Post-war • Information theory • Therapeutic self-expression Peters’ position • “The ideal of communication, as Adorno said, would be a condition in which the only thing that survives the disgraceful fact of our mutual difference is the delight that difference makes possible” (Peters 31).

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