Speaking and Symbolic Language

Part 1

             

Yes, it was very difficult because the urge to talk was on my mind the whole time. Just hearing there story about what they did that night, I just wanted to show them how interested I was, and their reaction to me not responding made me feel like I wasn’t interested. By them looking t me like I need help, the best way I could show them I was listening, I had to look at them directly in there eyes and smile, which probably sent them a message that I was weird. It was funny when I was looking at them and smiling, they would smile back with a look on there face saying look at this guy how weird is he, I could tell, their facial expression was funny. The one with most advantage would be the one who could speak, only because with speaking your able to get more information about anything out, then when all you have to communicate is symbolic language. The culture that can speak can act in many different ways, they could understand and get the drift of what they are talking about, or the worst can take place and not understand, or take it the wrong way. This depends on how well they get what they are talking about. Well first off say you were working a customer service job and someone would come in that deaf, at first they are trying to talk to you and you have no idea what to do, and your first instinct would be looking at them and lip talking to where no words are coming out of your mouth. Then you get deaf people who have been there and done that, so they are prepared and have paper and a pen, that way they just write down what they need, they know what to expect in these situations.

Part 2

           

This was indeed difficult only because my friend or “conversation partner,” was like, “why are you talking like a robot?” I said, “Nothing I am just blah.” Not being able to use a tone in my voice people kept thinking something was wrong. That saying, “what’s wrong,” was so annoying, but I had to hold in the reason why, with no tone. My conversation partner wasn’t mad, but by his symbolic language, I got the feeling he felt awkward, and a little uncomfortable. We finished the 15 minutes, but he finished his story. When I explained the assignment, he said I was weird and laughed. Having tones and symbolic Language can tell a lot about someone, from their emotions to their personality. For example: when my conversation partner called me weird, and laughed, I didn’t take that offensive because he was smiling and laughing while he said it. I f he did smile or laugh I might have taken it the wrong way. I believe there are people who have trouble reading body language, when it comes to someone who aren’t use to it. Say a deaf person would look at someone who speaks and not understand their body language, then which a person who speaks looking at someone who is deaf and not understanding there body language. If there was a day, say you were cleaning your house and was really busy on a tight schedule, and someone came up to you and asked you a question, then you responded, not meaning it in a mean way but that’s how it sounded those are moment we wish wouldn’t happen but it does.

Part 3

           

Yes, but it would have not been as fun as it was, just experimenting different languages made this assignment fun. Written language would have made it to easy. What would have been the point if we could use written language, only because written language can tell a lot. One really neat advantage is when cultures would write there stories of there life and adventures but not with words, but pictures, they use this methods because when the children were growing up, they would sit with them telling the stories using the pictures. I do believe drawing pictures on rocks is another method of a written language. Written language has done a lot through the years, forms drawings in caves, telling us they’re hunting and adventures, also Aztecs and Mayans, with there creative calendars. We have learned the way of other people’s lives from their schools, to food, celebrations, religions, and sacrifices, all because it was written down. The poor to the rich was even documented. Just learning even the different languages from using written language, we as people has grown around the form of written language. Language is amazing from the past, present, and the future. Who knows, so many years from now people will look at our written, spoken, and symbolic language and enjoy it, like we have through all these years.