3). Pick one concept from the assigned reading, that has not already been discussed during this discussion week, that you found useful or interesting, and discuss it.
The concept that I found most interesting this week was manipulative verbs. The book defines this is “deciding to alter, multiply, eliminate, divide, or transpose, we are using manipulative verbs to change the way we view a particular process.” (Harris, 191)
This was interesting to me being a communication major because it explained to me exactly why and how speaking techniques can change the context of what your saying. Changing verb placement can completely change the context of a sentence or give it a completely different meaning. I think that when many people speak they do not think about the placement of their verbs and this is why so many people have misconceptions in communication.
I think that this is most common in situations like texting, instant messaging, facebook, etc. Since there is a lack of face-to-face communication you have to be particularly careful to the how you word things and the placement of verbs. Many people misunderstand the meaning because they do not have the nonverbal gestures to back up what is being said and how it was meant.
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Hey,
ReplyDeleteFunny that you mention people don't think about verb placement and/or grammar much in especially Facebook, texting, ect situations. As I was reading your post I had just sent a text message to someone, which said: "Hey no wine w u dinner rite u mite b hungova enuff hahaha."
Now I'll bet you have no trouble whatsoever understanding that sentence because this kind of "language" in text messaging is so prevalent. I think we as colleg students text and post Facebook wall notes using this type of "language" use, but since we didn't grow up with text messaging existing or being common we still don't have a problem speaking correcting and writing essays. However with the high school generation right now they probably have a much more hard time writing/speaking correctly because "text language" is like their first language since it's so common.