ASSIGNMENT

Name: Lee Storey.

PI: X3353768

U211 TMA 4.

Feb 3rd 2010.

Assignment

Part 1.

Dialogic.

The term dialogic is defined as dialogue in continuous use. During conversation speakers may not be fully knowledgeable of the spoken topic taking place. Therefore, a participant may engage in dialogue with assumptions that they have understood the previous speaker resulting in giving possible responses to the dialogue. This can possibly be partly defined as pragmatics, whereby one speaker may misunderstand certain utterances of the previous speaker. This process could possibly affect the cohesion of the conversation. Furthermore, the process

The English terms dialogic and dialogism often refer to the concept used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in his work of literary theory, The Dialogic Imagination. Bakhtin contrasts the dialogic and the "monologic" work of literature. The dialogic work carries on a continual dialogue with other works of literature and other authors. It does not merely answer, correct, silence, or extend a previous work, but informs and is continually informed by the previous work. Dialogic literature is in communication with multiple works. This is not merely a matter of influence, for the dialogue extends in both directions, and the previous work of literature is as altered by the dialogue as the present one is. In this sense, Bakhtin's "dialogic" is analogous to T. S. Eliot's ideas in "Tradition and the Individual Talent," where he holds that "the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past." .

The term 'dialogic', however, does not just apply to literature. For Bakhtin, all language - indeed, all thought - appeared dialogic. This means that everything anybody ever says always exists in response to things that have been said before and in anticipation of things that will be said in response. We never, in other words, speak in a vacuum. As a result, all language (and the ideas which language contains and communicates) is dynamic, relational and engaged in a process of endless redescriptions of the world.

Part 2.

Statistics( DVD 1) suggest English is the world`s language for communication, 80% internet, 70% mail and the international language for business. Owing to this phenomena, English has become the world language for business. As a result, English workplace discourse communities have evolved both nationally and internationally. In order for these communities to function, they require certain features of speech together with working relationships. In this essay, we will look at some of these features e.g. jargon, lingua franca, working relationships and certain linguistic features of speech. In order to critically analyse these features I researched professionals and webcasts with the following results.

The idea of a `workplace discourse community` covers a vast area of topic. Business relations, communication, jargon, workplace genres, finance, etc all play their part.. Communication,the way we speak and in what contexts acts as a tool for a community to function. It is possible that all participants share together knowledge of their business, all engaging with a common goal to serve the business of `how to get things done` Communities ...