SO! I was thinking, here's a common conversation heard among undergraduates at NUS. I've decided to record it.
Now, don't tell me you've never heard THAT before.
For more crazy undergraduate banter, visit:
Overheard At NUS
Be prepared to laugh!
ISSUE 2:
Very often, we believe a speech event will go according to planned. Dr Deng mentioned a marriage proposal. My question is, what if it goes wrong?
Like the lady runs away or says "No!" to the poor guy. Or a lecturer's opening statement "Let's DANCE!" . Or a student jumps on his chair in the lecture hall and says "Enough of this!"
It shocks us, it is unexpected, out of the norm, it doesnt follow protocol. So what do we do?
Pay MORE attetion to such sequences. Why?
Good question. A speech event may go wrong, but the fact that it is unexpected when it goes wrong means that it is structured and rule-governed.
ReplyDeleteHi! I suppose like, dr deng says, when things go wrong we can be sure that such events are structured. I would just like to add on that, things, usually do not go wrong, or at least not as wrong as your issues show! (haha by the way! ur examples are really funny!)I suppose we don't really pay attention to the sequences but rather, as human beings, there seem to be this implicit social contract that we're all bound to. Conforming to social norms come to us as naturally as perhaps, eating. I think it is such social contracts that allow most things to go right!
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