ORAL COMMUNICATION 11

ACTIVITY 3 (LANGUAGE IN USE)

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A. TYPES OF COMMUNICATION
Categorize the following events whether one is form or an end result (advantage) of its specific
communication type.  (Types: Intra, Inter, Group, Public, Mass). ANSWER ONLY 

1.     Introspection and Counterfactual Thinking

2.     Gossip whispering
3.     Website posting about Vaccination statistics
4.     University-wide Youth conference
5.     Departmental planning meeting

B. DIMENSIONS OF COMMUNICATION

Identify how these events can be categorically described as any of the Dimensions of Communication.  

1. Offering when you saw someone obviously struggles in carrying his/her grocery bags.  
2. A Thesis/ Dissertation Panel Discussion
3. You're tired, you lean in your co-worker's desk. He or she interpreted it as a rude act. It escalated in a
heated conversation.

C. SPEECH ACTS

Identify the act done after the speech were uttered. (Representative, Commissive, Directive, Declaration
and Expressive) 

1. Never again that I will see you meeting with that boy from Chakaland.
2. I swear I won’t see Martha again!
3. Your dress looks like sown dead butterflies.
4. A mother shouting “Selpon kayo ng selpon, di kayo magsi-bangon diyan at maglinis ng bahay”
5. Your license is suspended for 2 years, and you will be in house arrest for 5 years.
 D. FLOUTING THE MAXIM FOR IMPLICATURE

Identify which Maxim was flouted to achieve implicature in the following conversation.

1. A: Will Bob go to that party?

B: Is the Pope catholic?

2. A: *John was called out after a third strike in baseball

B: What an amazing baseball player John is!

3. Josh: You think our house is haunted?

Renai: I don't think it. I know it. Things move around in here by themselves. I walk into the
kitchen at night to get a drink, I can feel eyes on me. I can't be in there alone anymore. I need
you. But you're never here. Where are you?