I went for a rehearsal last friday, and met my section partner first time.
We introduce ourselves to each other, shake hands, and we chat whenever we don't need to play!(sorry! the rest of orchestra!)
Our chatting topic changed almost every time after another break, from where we from, how good the instrument is, what are you playing now, and the future career.... etc.
Genre: conversation
Topic: not specific?!
Purpose or Function: small talk
Setting: rehearsal room, every friday night
Key: free, relaxed
Participants: my partner and I, the orchestra(?)
Message form: spoken- english
writting- bowing( for our playing)
non-verbal- headnod, smill, use bow to index where we are
Act Squence: no certain sequence
Rule for Interaction: polite, not ask things too private, not too laud( orchestra still playing)
Norms of Interpretation: try to be objective to others' playing, try to unify in your section, be nice to your partner is more important than whether you are good player
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As in lecture note, speech event can be, e.g. see a doctor, service counter and market tansactions.(Lecture 3 note, p 1)
But if you see those 3 events as 3 independant speech events, how about mine orchestra one? should I see it as a big speech event, like I analysed above, or, should I see them as many different short events?
i think u can see it as a whole big speech event, like when we gossip during a gathering, we don't keep gossiping about one certain people or topic but the topics in our gossip changes, like from gossiping to someone to reminiscing about school days. we also pause to drink, eat, toilet break etc etc, but its still gossip isn't it? As in your case, when both of you are chatting, the topic might been a range of things but its still small talk to know it other since you met your partner for the first time? =)
回覆刪除Agree with Hueli that small talk can be taken as one type of speech event. Though there is change of topic, we can still know those topics belong to the speech event of small talk, not those of Orchestra Performance or Rehearsal.
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