Topics about Spoken language, oral culture

3. condition of
continued
social
interaction
the enactment
of a group´s
cultural self-
understanding.
PROTECTING
FACE

4. positive
face
negative
face

5. The negotiation of
frames and footings
and the facework
accomplished in verbal
encounters among
members of a given
social group gives rise
to group-specific
discourse styles.

6. Conversational
styles
Face to face
verbal
exchange
Oral features
of speech
A feeling of
joint
interpersonal
Sense of
detachment
of objectivity
Transmission
of factual
information.
Different
contexts of
situation and
culture.

7. • AN INTERVIEW
Between journalist and young apprentice in Germany:
A: and where do you work?
B: I work in the metal industry
A: uhuh… why did you choose that particular job? In the
metal industry?
B: well … it was… so the speak… the job of dreams. I
wanted to work, but not particularly an intellectual job, but a
more physical one
A: so … you can say that you chose that job yourself?
B: I chose that job myself

8. • Peter: What I’ve been doing is cutting down on my
sleep
• Deborah: Oy! And I’ve been … and I
• Peter: I do that too but it’s
• Deborah: painful. Yeah. Fi:ve, six hours a night,
• Peter: and
• Deborah: Oh God how can you do it. You survive?
The orate- literate continuum gets realized differently
in different cultural genres, like interviews and friendly
conversations, but also in different cultural traditions
within one genre, such as classroom talk.

9. People are able to display
a variety of
conversational styles in
various situations, and
one should avoid equating
one person or one culture
with one discourse style.
All conversational styles are equally
valid, since they reflect the equally
respectable values of the discourse
communities they come from, not
all styles have equal power
Conversations are
distinguished by the
conversational styles
according to their
culture and the
situation in which the
conversation is
established