ORAL COMMUNICATION SAM CHRISTIAN DUCO 11-NEWTON

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY
You have learned that communicative competence requires understanding of speech act to respond
appropriately for effective communication. Hence, it is important to determine the appropriate response in
different social setting and situations.

Watch an interview from television, radio or internet. Analyze the utterances of the person being interviewed
and point out whether those utterances/statements made were understood completely, followed
comprehensively or misunderstood deliberately by the interviewer.

Utterances/Statements Intention of the Interviewer’s Possible

Interviewee (The Understanding of Reasons/Causes on the
person the message Misunderstood part of
interviewed) conveyed the Interview If there
was

“…it's not cool, it's not

cool, it's not cool, let
The words were spot
me tell you something
on, and now they
you might laugh and While the interviewers
understand that they
say it's cool but when joke about the situation,
were mistaken and
it's a bunch of She did not allow the interviewee takes it
shouldn't criticize
celebrities out here them to say bad seriously and thinks it
other celebrities as it
taking drugs and things about other shouldn't be done in the
wasn't what they
committing suicide and celebrities during middle of their show. If
intended to ask the
killing themselves, is the interview. the situation were to
guest about. They
not cool it's not cool persist, it would
were ashamed of
because you think it's escalate into a problem.
their own
not on you when the
predicament.
heat is not on you of
course it's cool.”

Be able to explain the reason why you think certain utterances/statements made were misunderstood.