Conversation Essays and Research Papers

During a family gathering, I engaged my uncle James in a conversation in order to get his perspective on death. Since it was an emotive topic, I had to make perfect timing to start the dialogue. I had been trying to find the most appropriate moment but none had presented itself for the better part…

Second Position is used to place yourself as the receiver into the senders’ shoes, to experience not only the situation the individual is in but considers the feelings, thoughts, assumptions and experiences from the senders’ viewpoint (Beebe, 2017). The first position allows you, as the listener to see, hear and feel the situation through hearing,…

Smartphones have grown from the time they first came out till now. Almost everyone has one that they use daily for multiple things. Yeah, their good to have but are they taking away face to face communication skills from us? There have been proven studies shown that smartphones take away from people communicating face to…

The development of both relationships progressed in a steady and predictable way. My relationship with Sage developed at a faster pace in the Knapps stage model than it did with Ema, especially because when the hidden window in the Johari window was revealed, spontaneity occurred and it was easier to peel back the layers of…

Back in the old day people would communicate through hieroglyphs, using carrier pigeons, writing letters, and in some circumstance even using codes like Morse code. Numerous advanced types of communication have been introduced over the years. Phone calling, text messaging, video calling, and social media. Even though these new advanced forms of communication are efficient…

In everyday conversation, we often do not pay attention to the structure and conversational dynamics. For instance, philosopher David Lewis believes that the structure of a conversation is based on a “conversational scoreboard” and the scoreboard contains several different features that add or subtract to a conversation. Within this scoreboard, features such as presupposition and…

In a world where we are superficially more connected than ever in human history, we are feeling more isolated than ever. While everyone desires human connection, digital alternatives such as texting, is often more convenient than everyday acquaintances. Thus resulting in more day-to-day life becoming digital, reducing opportunities for in-person conversations. Communication is defined as…

There is a lot of studies related to the study of language and gender. With the research related to gender is on the fact of how men and women communicate differently. So many different kinds of researches and surveys have been conducted on the different ways of how men and women communicate and their style…

According to Brown and Levinson (1987), the bald on record strategy uses a direct method to convey messages without any minimisation to the imposition. Brown and Levinson (1987) states that if the speaker wants to apply FTA (Face Threatening Acts) to the maximum extent to where satisfying the hearer’s face is no longer greater, the…

There were a few parts of these readings that stood out to me. One example was early in the Nichols reading where the topic was focused on the dialogue in a conversation. When in a conversation, a person may bring up a story that they believe is empathetic to the other member of the dialogue…