Field blog 4

Transcribing

C = Chandler B= employer

Frame: Interviewing

C: Also, I wan the appointed person of my company transaction for the KR5 to GR6 system.

B: That’s pleasure to transform.

C: That I did. That I did!

B: So, let’s talk a little bit of your “doodies”

C: (hesitating) My duties? Alright!

B: You’ll be holding a whole division. So, you have a lot of “doodies”.

C: (hesitating) I see.

B: But there’ll be… perhaps 30people on the usual. You can dot a certain amount on them.

C: (hesitating) Good to know.

B: We can go into detail……

C: No, No, I beg of it.

(The employer stood up and shook hands with Chandler)

Frame: Shifting from Interviewing to Feedback

B: Alright, then. We’ll have a definite answer for you on Monday. But I think I could say with some confident that you’ll be in well here.

C: Really?

B: Absolutely! You can relax. You did great.

( They walked toward to the door.)

Fream: Shifting from Feedback to Clearfication

C: I got to say thank you. I was really nervous. You have talked, come on, to show me too many jokes and that was really hard to take side step, then “doodies” thing.

(The employer looked confused.)

C: Duties. “Doodies”. “ Poo.”

B: (confusing) “Poo”?

C: Oh, My God! This doesn’t count. Ok! The interview was over. That was the real Chandler of being there. There is just some crazy guy at all.

(Chandler looked outside the corridor and pretended to call the security guy)

Fream: Shifting from Clearfication to Joking

C: Call the security! There is a crazy guy at all.

B: “Poo”!

C: I look forward to your call!

Contrextualizationcues:

• Interviewing frame--- The tone of their talking are formal and serious.

• Feedback frame --- The employer stood up and shook his hand to indicate that the interview was over.

• Clearfication frame --- Chanlder talked about the "doodies" thing again and wanted to clearfy that the employer was making joke with him with a casual tone.
  

• Joking frame --- Chanlder changed his voice to pretend calling the security.
  

Frame shifting:

• From Interviewing frame to Feedback frame --- Their tone of talking changed from serious to causal. Also, The posture of them were changed from sitting properly to standing up.

• From Feedback frame to Clearfication frame --- While Chanlder wanted to have the fun again, he talked about the "doodies" thing with smile. After he realized he made some mistakes, he changed his voice again to show his apology.

• From Clearfication frame to Joking frame --- He changed his voice to a higher pitch to indicate that he is making joke and the facial expression changed.

Field blog 3 --- Shopping experiences

Stationery store v.s Vivienne Westwood

Stationery store near my home
When I entered the stationery store, the owner who has known me since I was nine said "Hi! How's going recently?" with smile. It was the involvement politeness strategies to maintain my positive face, the desired to be liked. She used this strategy to show the concern of my visiting. During the shopping period, I looked around to find some suitable notebooks and pens. When she kept on asking my recent situation, I pretended that I did not hear to show that I want to maintain my negative face which I want to be given space. Afterward, another boy came and asked for photocopying. Therefore, she stopped asking me question and served that boy. While she was photocopying, I deliberately ask her question such as “ how much is that pen?”, “ How many different colors do this type of the pen has?”. At that moment, she felt embarrassed and asked me to wait for a moment. Indeed, what I did was a face threatening act which threatened her negative face. Because she would want having a space to serve the other customer instead of serving both of us at the same time.

Vivienne Westwood in Shatin New Plaza
While I entered the shop, the salesperson said “welcome” with a nice smile. However, she did not come near by and just left me walking around by my self. It showed that she used the Independence politeness strategy to maintain my negative face which I could enjoy my space and respected my freedom to walk around. After circulating for a while, I stood in front of a showcase which was displayed some wallets. A moment later, a salesperson came and asked “Miss, may I help you?”. It indicated that she used the involvement politeness strategy to maintain my positive face that she was paying attention to me. Then, “ Sure, I would like to have a look of this wallet” I answered, pointing to one of the wallet. While she put the wallet out from the showcase, she said “ this one has red color as well and it would be more suitable for a young lady to use the red one as the black looks mature”. While she offering me those advices, I did not pay attention to it deliberately and even with no facial expression respond. The salesperson looked like feeling upset and just being silent afterwards. In fact, what I did was a face threatening act which threatened her positive face. Because she want her advices would be taken or pay attention with.



Comparison of both situations

Stationery Store
Power (P) Nil Distance (D) D- Weight of Imposition (W) W-

Vivienne Westwood Shop
Power (P) Nil Distance (D) D+ Weight of Imposition (W) W-

Regarding the Power (P), the relationship between the salesperson and me should be equal (nil) in the two shops. However, for the distance (D), as I have known the owner of the stationery store for a long time, the distance of us (D-) is relatively closer then the salesperson in Vivienne Westwood shop (D+). In term of Weight of Imposition (W), for both of them, selling product is their job duty, so it would not be a serious matter for them(W-).

To conclude, as the only different of them is the distance relationship. Therefore, the owner of the stationery store used the involvement strategy and the salesperson would most likely use the independent strategy. However, besides those dimensions, there are still other factors would influence the choice of the politeness strategy, such as the image of the shop would like to project to their customers.

Homework 2 An ethnomethodological experiment

Face to Face Conversation

C=My Friend M= I ( Myself )

C: Hi, Connie. How’s your semester?

M: You mean which semester. For the last one, it was just very busy. But it’s OK as it has passed. For this year, as it has just started for a week only, I feel nothing special.

C: OK… Then, have you eaten yet?

M: Of course, I have. For the first day I was born until now, I have eaten much food. However, I am hungry now as I haven’t had lunch yet.

C: So, do you like sandwiches?

M: What do you mean if I like sandwiches? Do you mean making a sandwich or eating a sandwich? If you mean making a sandwich, yes, I like cooking including making sandwiches. If you mean eating a sandwich, then, I would prefer having some paste instead of a sandwich.

C: Connie, do we have some misunderstanding. I just wanted to ask you to have lunch with me. Why you seem always criticize with me? Fine, I will have my lunch with myself then, and you could have yours with yourself. (She was getting angry with my misunderstanding and went away.)

Analysis:

In the whole conversation, I always criticized that her questions were not clear enough. She felt that it was unusual for me not to understanding her questions and so she became impatient and angered with me. Because she expected we would understand well with each other and so no need to spoke out every word.

First Field Blog 1 (Fieldwork in CityU)

One boy and one girl were observed. They stayed in self-study area of yellow zone.

They sat on the chair side by side. There was a table in front of them. The boy had a book and some stationery while the girl had a NDS, a mp3, some drinks and snacks on the table. All of those thing are the setting.

For the appearance, both of them dressed in a causal way.

For the manner, the boy was reading his book in a serious way and only focus on the book only.
At the same time, the girl was playing her NDS with a boring facial expression.

Based on about "Fronts", I believe that the boy is a student and the girl who was just sitting there waited for someone.

According to the Week one reading, when we perform these roles, we tey to maintain and promote a certain 'line'.
Therefore, the 'line' of the boy is that he was working hard to study and take studying as a serious matter.
The 'line' of the girl is that she was bored by waiting for somebody for a long time.

For the routine, the boy always read the book from left to right and from top to the bottom. While he finished one page, he would turn over and started to read another page. It is the routine of reading book.
The girl always read the instruction of the NDS game and followed the instruction to finished each task until she completed all the tasks and jumped to another level. It is the routine of playing NDS.

For the region, although they were in the public places, I thought there were no audience watching them and the posture of the girl was very causal which sould not sit in the same if she thought there were an audience.
Also, the boy paid attention on the book only and thought there were no one around. Therefore, I think they were on backstage.

Although they did not have much interactions, I could know that they are in team. Because, there was a tie-sign which was the sharing ear-phone among them. It would be the most obvious indication to prove that they were in team.