Week 15 #3

Self-image affects communication. " I" is that people are birth with, but " me " is affected by environment, family, and culture.Ting-Toomey defines that people grow up and raise in their culture. The individual -identity is stand for and related to the group-identity. the individual norm, behavior, and understanding of social value is tied to the membership in the culture group. For example, one of my friend who is Chinese, but she was adapted by an England couple when she was a baby. She grew up in London. even though she looks like a Chinese, she behaves totally an Englander; she doesn`t have any Chinese norm and culture in her mind. Therefore, " me " is influenced in the environment, culture, and family.

Week 15 #2

In communication theory, the clock face is shown the relationship of karl weick`s three criteria. The hours of twelve, four, and eight show weick`s three criteria: generalizability, accuracy, and simplicity. At twelve o`clock can be applied in every situation, it`s more successful than expected, but it is no completely context-free approach to social behavior. ( P 468) At four o`clock is pure scientist like stating, testing, and rejecting null hypothese ( p 468); it focus on explaining the tests in the pass and proving them. At eight o` clock is collapsed data into a single conclusion. The three criteria are related to each other; and can`t be done alone.

Week 15 #1

In chapter 36, Griffin mentions that communication is motivation and communication needs motivation. Motivation is that " needs and desires that drive or draw us to think, feel, and act as we do." ( Griffin, E. 2008), ( P 472). Motivation includes social exchange theory that people can see it when people will become more vulnerable in their depth and breadth of self-disclosure; need for affiliation is that human needs support and is scared to be isolated from other; need for achievement is that people want to be successful by setting goal, identity alternatives, and evaluatating the achievement; need for control is that people are controled by powerful group, and the powerful group has the greatest voice; need to reduce uncertainty is to gain knowledge and create people`s understanding. People like to discover information when they meet others in the first place; and Burke suggests that need to reduce anxiety to reinforce people`s existing beliefs, seek social support.

Week 12 #3

In Chapter 35, Kramarae concludes that " in order to participate in society women must transform their own models in terms of the recieved male system of expression." ( Griffin, E 2008) ( P 459). It`s a good idea to transform women`s own models to recieve male system expression. It can help women understand more men`s thinking; and women can find the best way to communicate with men. But, men have to transform their own models to recieve female system expression. Like men, women also have their own thinking that is different from men`s thinking. It can help men to find out why women have different explaination in the same things or ideas than men do. Also, men can have more sense about women`s thinking and emotion. It can help men make good relationship with women. If only women make change, and men have no change anything, it will create the different unequal between women and men.

Week 12 #2

In chapter 35, Griffin explains muted group that is " people with little power who have trouble giving voice to their perceptions because they must reencode their thoughts to make them understood in the public sphere; e.g., women. " ( p 455). Women are in the muted group . It doesn`t mean that women have no voice in the society, but women have no power in the society. They can`t react the ways they like to ; they have to follow the roles that are provided by the culture. Before they get married, women have to follow their fathers and brothers` orders. After they get married, the women have to listen to their husbands` orders. If not, the society will be reacted the women badly. As a result, women are tought to be in muted group by their own cultures when they were young.

Week # 12 #1

In chapter 34, griffin mentions standpoint is that " a place from which to critically view the world around us." ( P 441). The story in P 443 was so bad and touched my feelings. In our society, men and women are not equal in real. In China, based on the Chinese culture, the people like baby boys because boys have power, can continue the family bleed. In some small villages, when baby gilrs were birth, the fathers would threw the baby gilrs away and tried to have other babies because they hoped the other babies would be boys. 90% of orphan in orphanage in China are gilrs. Also, there are still many abuse cases which are husbands abuse their wives in physically , psychologically, and sexually. But some wives think that they have to suffer the abuse because the men are their husbands; and the husbands should control the wives. I hope that the women will change their mind to fight back and get away the hurt.

Week 10 #3

In chapter 29, Griffin talks about fear of isolation is that " the fear of isolation is the centrifugal force that accelerates the spiral of silent." ( P 373). In a group, the minority person always keep quiet . He / she doesn`t want to share his/her ideas or opinion because he/she doesn`t make sure that the others would accapt the ideas he/she has. He/she doesn`t want to be isolated in the group because he /she is minority. When he/she listens to others` ideas or opinions, he/she just keeps silent even though he/she disagrees with the ideas or opinions. He/ she has strong feeling of anxiety when he/she speaks out the different ideas or opinions. I think that everybody has the same experience in daily life , expecially, when you are new in an environment. you try hard to keep yourself in a group and are afraid of being isolated.