A concept that interested me in Chapter 2 was the ethnography of communication on page 36. The ethnography of communication consists of different contexts for observing communication, as well as elements of communication. The steps that you observe are the speech community, speech situations, speech events, and speech acts. The ethnography of communication is basically trying to explain a different culture’s way of communicating. From there, the developer narrows down how to observe even more with the elements of communication. The elements consist of situations, participants, ends (goals), act sequences, keys, instrumentalities, norms, and genres, which is an acronym for “SPEAKING” a.k.a. communication. These elements make great guidelines for comprehending another culture’s way of speaking and communicating. It’s an easy and convenient way to remember how ethnography of communication operates. Other cultures can be very difficult to understand, but the simple, easy to remember steps make different cultures effortless to get a grip on.
Hello Kylie,
ReplyDeleteI found very interesting how you choose to talk about the ethnography of communication because it does form an essential roll when we speak. Like you mentioned, ethnography of communication is formed by observation communication and that is important to understand. As human beings, we learn through what we see, that is why observing different levels of communication becomes really important. You also broke it down to listing the important elements of observing "speaking" as a type of communication. I agree with you that those elements do make it easier for us to observe the different levels of communication. Once we understand communication than we can understand the speaker more.
-Jazzy