Morgan opens with a welcoming statement. This is the first part of an adjacency pair. The second part is Cole’s response ‘Thanks Piers. It’s so nice to be here.’ This opening dialogue between Morgan and Cole is phatic talk, creating a pleasant dynamic between both people and seems to indicate that the interview will be cooperative rather than adversial. There are nine adjacency pairs which follow and these are composed of a question and answer.
2. Would you hire Robin Phillips? Why, why not? Personally, I would not hire Robin Phillips. While he has a good reputation and ideas for evolving the strategic direction of the theater, I believe they are self-centered in their motivation and would put the theater in the red for longer than Mr. Phillips would be willing to stay.
The phenomenon of the show has established the intense ability to persuade and inform a specific audience. As Aristotle once said, "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion”, rhetoric, has been an undoubted success with the Jersey Shore. The format and arrangement of the show lends itself entirely to assisting the goal of entertaining a particular audience. In the introduction, which would be the first few episodes of every season, the authority is established. The first few episodes relate to the prior season and reestablish the relationships, meaning and identity of every character.
Unit 9 project Jan and Ken Case Study 1. Using the chapters on language and emotions to help frame your answer, suggest two ways that Ken could open this conversation more productively. For instance, clearly expressing his emotions and using “I” language. Ken could have tried opening the conversation more productively by saying something like, “Jan, do you have a few minutes? (This acknowledges to Jan that ken feels that her time is valuable), I would appreciate if we could talk about a problem that I am having.
I would hold conferences for press and general public to talk about the plans of the system and get feedback on what the customers would like to see in the successor of the Wii. I would place ads in the newspaper, magazines, online, on billboards, and on television to get the word out to as many people as possible. 2. How might the diffusion process differ between the Wii and its competitors? Wii is a different type of system from its competitors so the diffusion process will differ.
Both characters are guilty of focalism which leads to an escalation of conflict and poor decision making. The captain's focalism is deeply rooted in overconfidence bias. Bazerman explains overconfidence bias as "too sure that we know the right answer, we become impervious to new evidence or alternate perspectives" (37). In the original message, the captain was given orders that he plans to follow; therefore, he searches for confirming rather than disconfirming evidence as to the actions he should take. He has more experience than the executive officer, so when questioned by the X-O he replies "I don't need to think this over."
I assumed that Carla was responsible although she could be doing everything she did only because she had been told to do so or possibly she could have been lying about the things she said. It would be hard for me to know the difference between her realities or what she falsely claimed as true, and there could be many other factors which we don’t see that say she was not a responsible person. With Carla’s gender I automatically thought she would be more mature and caring than her brother because she was female, and usually girls mature faster than boys, or so I have been told over the years. I believed automatically that their socio-economic status was middle class because her family could afford to travel for months and send two kids to University, and that is not cheap. Carla’s weight was not that big of a concern for me because I thought it was the stress from her brother causing her to be underweight; I took this assumption directly from my own situation of living with an older brother.
Not long into the story another one of those comprehension strategies came into play and took me from just reading the story to being immersed in the story. Allow to me explain, reading a story from a reader’s perspective allows you to see only so much into and about the text you are reading; however, to truly comprehend the story’s meaning and purpose you need to get involved and make connections from the story itself to your very own experiences. For instance, the family in the story is trying very hard to fit into their society by doing whatever they can to put on a show of a lavish lifestyle like that of those around them. I took that idea and connected it to the very similar situations of many close
Television programs are the most influential forms of media in my opinion. When people watch a television show they listen to what the people are saying and interpret the way they feel it should be interpreted. Talk show hosts who talk about news and the everyday world usually use parodies. Saturday Night Live is an example of a show that uses parodies to tell about something. They talk about a wide range of topics such as celebrities, politics, and fashion.
I’m planning on setting the scene up and having Ryan and myself sit in position and kind of rehearse how he should speak and feel. I want to get him used to being in front of the camera and lights. I’m going to ask him a few questions to give him a hang of what direction the interview will