Communication assignment

Assignment Details.

Interview someone who is different from yourself.  This person may be much older than you are by many decades, of a different religion or ethnicity, of a different race, sexual orientation, or have a disability.  The point is to schedule some time to engage with this person on a deeper, conversational land personal evel.   Make a careful attempt to create that positive social world as defined by Coordinated Management of Meaning (listen in a way that people will want to speak to you--and speak in a way that people will want to listen to you), work to incorporate the concept of giving face from Politeness Theory, and try to create an authentic dialog suggested by Paulo Freire regarding this person as a subject, rather than as an object.  Work to put into use the ideas we have covered this semester.   You will follow the attached protocol and you will create a deeper reflection in which you will refer to all the ideas noted above and will discuss how this interview helped you to understand and communicate with difference.

Blog- after the interview assignment is completed I need a short blog completed. The blog does not have to be very long. Just long enough to fill barely a page with double spaced typing. Here are the details-

Reflect about your interview with someone who is different.   Base your comments on what you learned about your interviewee and about yourself as a result of having conducted the interview in this section.  You might include elements of Attribution Theory, Politeness Theory, CMM or other approaches we have studied to make sense of this experience.