Last week in class we went over the Analysis of Form/Syntax in depth in class. We will go over EACH type. For form/syntax you analyz the child's grammar and look at transitive, intransitive and equative clauses. You will also analyze the grammatical morphemes. We will go over those in more depth as well.
If you choose to analyze the child's Pragmatic abilities you will be looking at the following skills. What do the following terms/skills mean to YOU? What do you do to use these in conversations?
Summon/Attention getting
Greeting
Initiating conversation
Specifying topic
Maintaining topic
Turn taking
Changing topic
Attending to speaker
Acknowledging
Making choices
Requesting information
Requesting an object
Requesting an action
Use of polite markers
Commenting on an action
Commenting on an object
Requesting clarification
Responding to request for clarification
Denying
Protesting
Closing
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It's interesting to think of the elements of conversation in such a mathematical way. I suppose the goal should be that these skills of conversation are not consciously aimed at or executed but that they become a natural reflex. To think that these skills are ever present in a persons mind, in the form of goals, can make the interaction lack genuineness and freedom. I apply these skills honestly. I ask because of genuine curiosity, I request clarification because I really want to understand what my conversation partner is trying to say, I comment and make polite markers because I want the person to know I care or because my genuine interest brings along with it excitement... Even my reasons are not thoughts in themselves. .... So I think that awkward conversations often come out of a lack of honest reactions which then results with a retreat to the basic "skills" of conversation which are utilized simply for the sake of form and there needing to be in the conversation. -Does all that make sense?
ReplyDeleteHmmm...it might...but (not to be smart or sarcastic) your comment reads more like a book than just someone thinking about how people carry on communication and use those skills.
ReplyDeleteI mean do you really talk like, "awkward conversations often come out of a lack of honest reactions which then results with a retreat to the basic "skills" of conversation which are utilized simply for the sake of form?"
That sounds AWKWARD to me and lacking in any real meaning . . . to be honest. What are you REALLY trying to say?