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

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.

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LEKEI

Lekei's Learning Highlights

When I experience the glowing light-bulb, I don't take
notes about it so it is really kind of hard to think of
a lot of occasions when this has happened. First I will
explain how I feel when I don't know something, it
irritates me and sometimes I even feel powerless. The
reason I say this is because sometimes I just can't stop
thinking about whatever it is I am trying to learn or
what I don't know my be effecting another part of my
life. However, I am one that will ask questions usually
until I am satisfied ( sometimes I talk to people that
have the ability to explain information on a more
rudimentary level). I am a firm believer in
understanding a concept 1st, then focusing on the
technicalities about the topic(s) later.

The story I want to talk about is my SAT scores, since
this is one the most recent situation that has come up.
Well I never really understood where my score was in
relation to others that have taken the test. I
believed that I did not do well, but this did not
concern me because I already knew what kind of student I
was and that no test could predict how well I would
perform in college--my work would, but I always
wondered. No counselor ever sat down with me in high
school and explained my results to me (they should
have), so as a young adult I did not know anything about
what the scores mailed to my house meant. Over the years
as I matured I always wanted to go back and go over my
scores to get a better understanding, but I never had
time. Then this summer came and I had to take a STAT
class (I was not looking forward to it),now I am so glad
that I did, because there is so much stuff that is
useful to me...who knew! Since this class I know about z-
scores, raw scores, standard deviations, percentiles and
the list could go on and on. I have good news, now I am
motivated to figuring out my SAT scores and I am happy
about doing so. Last Thursday I went to West Virginia
State College's admissions office and got a copy of my
test scores--I looked over them, but I haven't worked
the score out yet. I must say, it feels much better
being able to do it myself than having someone doing for
me. Now I have the *power* to take the
initiative!