Language, Gender and Culture

Gladwell “Outliers: The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes”

In your Outliers text, identify the areas of the text that refer to the Korean Air crash, the Avianca crash, mitigated speech, American communication and Power Distance Index descriptions. Write a 2-3 sentence description of each topic.

What happened in the Korean Air crash? What happened in the Avianca crash? What is mitigated speech and who uses it? How is American communication described? What is the Power Distance Index and which

countries are in the high and low categories?

Reading Quiz

Take a minute to collect yourself and decide how you will perform it and where each of you will stand. Take your time, do your best and have fun!

Performing your Spoken Word Texts

Fishbowl Etiquette

Each student is responsible for participating in the fishbowl process. On the next slide you will see the discussion questions; look over the questions and decide which ones you want to discuss with your peers.

Each student is responsible for adding at least four thoughtful pieces of commentary to the discussion. You may enter the discussion as many times as you wish, however every student needs to participate in at least two discussion topics. No hogging a topic!

Each student is responsible for taking notes on at least four of the discussion topics. Notes can include questions, ideas that you like or disagree with, something that you find interesting, etc. You must have at least four notes for each discussion topic. Bullet points are ok.

Questions

1. Why is there a double standard between the way men & women speak?

2. In what circumstances is speech with zero mitigation appropriate (command)? With high mitigation (hint)?

3. How did gender roles and gender communication develop over time?

4. We tend to speak differently depending on who we’re talking to and how they relate to us. Under what circumstances do you do this?

5. Which is considered to be “stronger” direct or indirect communication? Why?

6. What role does culture or race play in the way we communicate with people of the same culture and different cultures than ourselves?

7. What are some solutions to solve cultural and gender communication issues?

Language, Gender and Culture

Gladwell “Outliers: The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes”

Write a one paragraph response to this prompt:Who is responsible for making meaning out of a message; the speaker or the listener?

Activity 1: Quickwrite

Activity 2: Close reading

Activity 3: Text comparison chart

Choose examples from the Tannen and Outliers texts that represent each of the following ways in which one communicates:

Examples from Tannen’s text

Examples from Gladwell’s text

passive

polite

indirect

aggressive

powerful

powerless

insecure

Activity 4: ½ page response

Choose one of the topics on the handout and write a ½ page response in your classwork. You may refer directly to your Tannen article.

Activity 5: Explaining Communication Styles

Choose one particular communication pattern and discuss what you mean by that form of communication. Base your explanation on the examples you provided from the texts and elaborate on those examples to make your point. Write a succinct and concise paragraph that explains the style of communication.

Due now

Activity 1: QuickwriteActivity 2: Close reading worksheetActivity 3: Text comparison chartActivity 4: ½ page responseActivity 5: Explaining communication styles