2- Think back to a time when you modified how you spoke or wrote given the particular setting or audience. Recall the scenario and begin exploring why you changed your language behavior. What was your relationship to your audience that prompted this change?
The Changes
It was the end of summer break of year 2000, my father decided to buy a new restaurant in St. Louis. So my family had to move from a small to this huge city. Things were tough for me at my new school in St. Louis. The school was huge, and the kids act so different. For the first two months, I have absolute nobodies to talk to. I try to join in a couple times, but failed miserably.
After all that failures, so I start to listen to how kids in my new school talk and what they usually talk about. Since most of the kids talk so differently than where I came from. The vocabulary that they using in their language and what the usual subject of the discussion. After one or two week of listening, I start to pick up the difference. So I started to modify my way of talking, even if I will loss my old self, but I have a little choice if I want to get accepted in this new community and audience. Soon later, I began to notice that my writing are changing too, I started to use some vocabulary that is commonly used in the people that I was hanging with.
My relationship with my audience is similar to an instructor and a student. The student picks up knowledge that is taught by the instructor in order to be successful in the classroom. Then later the student will become the instructor and teach the new comer and the cycle goes on and on.
It was the end of summer break of year 2000, my father decided to buy a new restaurant in St. Louis. So my family had to move from a small to this huge city. Things were tough for me at my new school in St. Louis. The school was huge, and the kids act so different. For the first two months, I have absolute nobodies to talk to. I try to join in a couple times, but failed miserably.
After all that failures, so I start to listen to how kids in my new school talk and what they usually talk about. Since most of the kids talk so differently than where I came from. The vocabulary that they using in their language and what the usual subject of the discussion. After one or two week of listening, I start to pick up the difference. So I started to modify my way of talking, even if I will loss my old self, but I have a little choice if I want to get accepted in this new community and audience. Soon later, I began to notice that my writing are changing too, I started to use some vocabulary that is commonly used in the people that I was hanging with.
My relationship with my audience is similar to an instructor and a student. The student picks up knowledge that is taught by the instructor in order to be successful in the classroom. Then later the student will become the instructor and teach the new comer and the cycle goes on and on.
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