My Revised Essential Question: How are the skills of Speech-Language Pathologists useful in intercultural communications involving the pragmatics of language?

My Revised Foundation Questions:

1. What is Speech-Language Pathology.

2. How are pragmatics a part of language?

3. In what ways can Speech-Language Pathology be usefully involved in intercultural pragmatic issues?

Project Prospectus

Tentative Point: I intend to evoke thought concerning Speech-Langauge Pathologists occupying capacities that are not commonly discussed that involves intercultural pragmatic communication issues.

Genres Include:

1. BioWeb (it is about Icate fictional a clinician )

2. Poem ( it is about Icate fictional clinician )

3. Fictional Humanitarian Organization ( The Unity Corps), their voice will be represented by a public service announcement.

4. Fictional Global Corporation (Sentessity), their voice will be represented by a powerpoint presentation--given by one of their executives, Chez Luka.

5. Fictional Pediatrician (Dr. Kirkly) refers Popur Hai (a Asian bilingiual client) to Icate Bloomington .

6. Fictional Newletter ( Converse Newsletter), it focuses on intercultural issues that concern the Speech Pathology community. This newsletter is received by Icate at her private therapy center ( Achieve Speech Center) in Austin, Texas.

My project wil be connected by the newletter that Icate receives, the voices of Sentessity and Unity Corps will be conveyed through articles written in the newletter. The audiences I intend to reach with this project includes buisness owners, speech pathologist, families dealing with intercultural issues and public organizations interested in these types of ideas.

Reference Page for MRP (I used these sources)

Beck, R. M. (2000). Aesthetics of communication: Texts on textiles (leso) from the east african coast (swahili). Research in African Literatures, 31, 104-124. Retrieved August 11, 2002, from Wilson Web database.

Jordan-Bychkov, T. G., & Domosh, M. (1999). People on the land. P. McGeehan, D. Groundwater, & M. Schoenung (Eds.), The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography Eight Edition (pp. 39-87). New York, New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.

Matsui, Y. (2002). Women in the new asia. Journal of Third World Studies, 19, 210-212. Retrieved August 10, 2002, from Wilson Web database.

Reed, V.A. (1994). Children with acquired language disorders. A. C. Davis (Ed.), An Introduction to children with Language Disorders Second Edition (pp. 290-315). Don Mills, Ontario: Macmillan College Publishing Company, Inc.

Samovar, L. A. & Porter, R. E. (1972). Intercultural communication: An introduction. R. Hayden (Ed.), Intercultural Communication: A Reader (pp. 1-23). Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc.

Samovar, L. A. & Porter, R. E. (1972). Nonverbal aspects: Taking part in intercultural communication. R. Hayden (Ed.), Intercultural Communication: A Reader (pp. 169-226). Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc.

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Icate's Poem

Lekei

It means POWER, STRENGTH and KINDNESS,

It is 99+2,

It is like deep blushing grapes so royal and true,

It is cooking out and celebrating whenever the weather allows,

It is the thought of my husband,

Who has taught me love beyond the feeling,

When he works for his family as sweat passes his brow,
My name is Lekei,

It means I believe the Lord has a master plan.

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CD 315 Class Journal

Here are some articles I found that will possibly become sources of information for my project.

Resource: Academic Search Elite
Keyword: Pragmatics
Adams, C. (2001). Clinical diagnostic and intervention studies of children with semantic--pragmatic language disorders. International Journal of Language and
Communication Disorders, 36(3). Retrieved July 13, 2002, from Academic Search Elite database.

Resource: Academic Search Elite
Keyword: Pragmatics
Vajda, E.J. (2001). Control in grammar and pragmatics. Language, 77(3), 628. Retrieved July 13, 2002, from Academic Search Elite database.

Resource: ERIC
Keyword: Speech Pathology, then I click on a link inside an abstract I believe it was titled Linguistics.
Lim, L. (2001). Becoming culturally inclusive: A
perspective on personnel preparation. Journal of Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps(Jash), 26(3), 195-199. Retrieved July 13, 2002, from ERIC database.

Resource: ERIC
Keyword: Bilingual Education
Crosling, G., & Ward, I. (2002). Oral communication: The workplace needs and uses of business graduate employees. English for Specific Purposes, 21(1), 41-57. Retrieved July 13, 2002, from ERIC database.


Resource: ERIC
Keyword: Language and Speech Pathology
Wolfram, W. (1979). Speech pathology and dialect difference. Dialects and educational equity. Languages and Linguistics (FL010930). Retrieved July 13, 2002, from ERIC database.

Resource: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Keyword: Pragmatics and Language
Parkinson, B. (1998). What we think when we think about emotion. Cognition & Emotion, 12(4). Retrieved July 16, 2002, from Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection database.

Resource: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Keyword: Pragmatics
Ervin-Tripp, S. (2001). The place of gender in developmental pragmatics: Sex differences. Research on Language & Social Interaction, 34(1), 131-147. Retrieved July 16, 2002, from Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection database.

Resource: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Keyword: Pragmatics
Wildner-Bassett, M. (1994). Intercultural pragmatics and proficiency: ‘Polite noises’ for cultural appropriateness. IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language
Teaching, 32(1), 3-15. Retrieved July 16, 2002, from Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection database.

Resource: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Keyword: Pragmatics
Liu, J. H., Pham, L. B., & Holyoak, K. J. (1997). Adjusting social inferences in familiar and unfamiliar domains: The generality of response to situational pragmatics. International Journal of psychology, 32(2), 73-91. Retrieved July 16, 2002, from Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection database.

Resource: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Keyword: Pragmatics
Fetzer, A. (1996). Reviews. IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 34(1), 66-67. Retrieved July 16, 2002, from Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection database.

LOL,

LEKEI