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Assignment: Please answer the short questions and any two essay questions:
Short Answer Question
1. How are messages created?
2. After a month of observing married couples' interactions, you observe nonverbal behavior that has you thinking that perhaps conflict is often facilitated by particular body posture and inflection. What do you think needs to happen to transform your hunches into a theory?
3. You need to teach a friend about what theory is from a conceptual understanding. Chapter 1 uses the metaphors of net, lens, and a map. Can you choose another metaphor to explain theory?
4. How do scientists and interpretive scholars differ in their answers to the question What is truth? Which perspective do you find most satisfying and why?
5. You have been in the friend zone for awhile now and really hope to move into the "romantic possibility" territory with your love interest. What insight/advice does Minimal Justification Hypothesis offer?
Essay Question 1: Which Uncertainty Management Strategy would use use when scoping out the following relationships: a blind date, a new co-worker, meeting your boyfriend's/girlfriend's parents for the first time. If your answers differ between these three, please explain why.
Essay Question 2: Which of the seven traditions serve as the best to analyze and explain this poster? (Chapter 4). What would it try to explain? Why is it the best perspective for this artifact?
Essay Question 3: How can we call a scientific theory good if it is capable of being proved wrong? How can we decide when a rhetorical critic provides a responsible interpretation?
Essay Question 4: You are an organizational consultant hired by Dunder Mifflin Paper Company to perform an ethnography to observe and offer insight to the communication practices of management and employees. You have a video artifact documenting some of the interactions and behaviors of the organizational members. Part of your job is to:
1. Identify 3 different "cultural performances".
2. Perform a "Thick Analysis" of these performances. This includes:
• Accurately describe the talk and actions and the particular context in which they occur.
• Capture the thoughts emotions, and the web of social interactions that surround that performance .
• Determine motivation, intention, or purpose for people said and did.
• Interpret what happened; explain what it means within this culture.
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