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A speech code involves a culturally distinct psychology, sociology, and rhetoric.
1. Speech Code Theory is highly contextual; a speech code cannot be recognized or understood without observing communicative conduct in particular times and places.
2. Speech Code Theory assumes that observed communication conduct can be interpreted/explained by determining a culture's situated codes of meaning and value.
3. Although the theory is based on studies of particular ways of speaking, it provides a general understanding of communicative conduct.
Wherever there is a distinctive culture, there is to be found a distinctive speech code.
What about your
hometown?
What is the speech
code like there?
How is it different from here?
Gerry Philipsen, Lisa Coutu, & Patricia Covarrubias wrote an overview, summary, and revision of the original Speech Code Theory.
Through their work, they identified three underlying assumptions about Speech Code Theory.
The Distinctiveness of a Speech Code
The Multiplicity of Speech Codes
The Substance of a Speech Code
The Performance of a Speech Code
The Rules of a Speech Code
The Judgment of a Speech Code
In any given speech community, multiple speech codes are deployed.
What about your hometown, what are
some different speech codes that are
used?
How do they differ? Who uses the different
codes? Where? When?
What is the significance of these differences?
The significance of speaking depends on the speech codes used by speakers and listeners to create and interpret their communication.
The terms, rules, and premises of a speech code are woven into speaking itself.
What are some of the meanings
that are attributed to ways of
speaking from within your hometown speech code?
When and what type of speaking is appropriate? inappropriate?
What are some of the Rules of your
hometown speech code?
What types of Social Dramas do these
rules play out in?
What Totemizing Rituals occur & what
do they idolize?
The artful use of a shared speech code is a sufficient condition for predicting, explaining, and controlling the form of discourse about the intelligibility, prudence, and morality of communication conduct.
Whatever the culture, the speech code reveals structures of self, society, and strategic action.
How does the proper and skilled use of your
hometown speech code impact how smart,
ethical, and/or sensible someone is?
Can you give an example of a positive judgment & a negative judgment?
What did you find out about the speech code(s) in your hometown?
Is a speech code the same as a dialect? Why/Why not?
Is speech code theory lacking because it doesn't address different forms of privilege embedded in speaking practices?
How can you use Speech Code theory at a job? How can it be helpful when adapting to a new job/getting a promotion?
A speech code is a historically enacted, socially constructed system of terms, meanings, premises, and rules, pertaining to communicative conduct.
Focus on the connection between Culture and Communication.
Now it's your turn...
What is the psychology of your hometown speech code? How is identity thematized?
What is the sociology of it? What relationships are created/perpetuated by the code?
What is the rhetoric of this code? What is one of the "truths" that can be evoked to persuade people from this code?
What did you think of Philipsen's Article - -Speaking Like a "Man" in Teamsterville?