Friday, September 21, 2007

Chapter 14

A amplified language consits of specific detailed statements. A good amplified language is a bilateral contract that both parties can agree upon. The more information that's on the contract the more clearer the offeree can perform and finish the task as what the offeror wanted. However in some situations like overmanagement in a company may make employees of that company crazy due to the fact that they are always bossed around by the many detailed rules and the many people who are in charge at that time.

A compressed language consits of general statements that may be stereotypic if its overlooked. Compressed language may often to be used by professors during exams, "pop quizes", and assignments suddenly due. because they usually want to test you on how you handle problems by yourself. One bad thing about compressed language is that it may fails to bring injustice to the discourse community, due to the impatients of the person who is incharge of that particular discourse community at that time. This may make that discourse community a dangerous place to live in at that time.

I think that it is both amplification and compression for our discourse community discussion on project #2.. In some points in our discussion we go into detailed discussions about how leadership works in the society which makes it amplification. Other points in our slides we briefly discuss how such organizations have their own special discourse community such as "Order of Omega" and "Gamma Sigma Alpha". This is compression, because we don't go in detail on how we can become a member of those societies because we are using them as a reference to support our presentation.

1 comment:

Mr. Wiebe said...

Good response It is very thourough and easy to follow. Nice insights into your group project.