Communications Paper - 6 pages (not including title and reference page)

Per this assignment, you must watch an episode of Blacklist (Season 6, Episode 16 Lady Luck) Your goal is to show how specific course concepts are operating in the conversation that you choose and to make a case for the importance of those concepts for the characters (as if they were real people). In your paper, you must: 1) Identify and analyze two important language concepts that are operating within the interaction. 2) Identify and analyze two important nonverbal codes that are operating within the interaction. 3) Explain how the language and nonverbal issues that you’ve discussed are operating together to produce some important effect(s) for the characters (e.g., on their lives, relationships, goals, etc.). WHICH CONCEPTS MAY YOU CHOOSE? - Language concepts: Choose from these (covered in lecture or Ch 4 or both, as indicated): connotative vs. denotative meaning of words/phrases (lec & Ch 4); euphemisms (section & Ch 4); equivocal language (lec & Ch 4); speech accommodation or code switching (lec & Ch 4); powerful vs. powerless speech styles (lec); high vs. low language (Ch 4); group slang (Ch 4); professional jargon (Ch 4); one of the language & identity issues (such as gender or culture) (Ch 4); one of the problematic language issues (such as hurtful language, labeling, or profanity) (Ch 4). - Nonverbal codes: Choose from these (covered in lecture and/or Ch 5): paralanguage (or specific types of paralanguage); appearance; proxemics; kinesics (or specific types of kinesics); oculesics; haptics; chronemics For the introduction: Identify which interaction (in the show) that you are analyzing, and be sure to provide a thesis statement(s) about what you plan to discuss and what is the larger point(s) of your paper (keep the intro brief!). For each separate language and nonverbal concept: Define your term(s) (including citing lecture and/or textbook in APA style) and give evidence that the particular language or nonverbal usage is indeed going on in the scene (i.e., provide specific examples of dialogue and character actions). Make a case for how the concept appears to have a significant impact on the interaction(s) between characters (i.e., how the use of the language or nonverbal concept ties/relates to your thesis). This might be something like how the issue(s) ended up creating/resolving conflict or misunderstandings; how the characters’ relationships, judgments, perceptions, or reactions were affected; etc. For tying everything together: In your paper, you should be building toward some point(s) that you wish to make (i.e., your thesis). So, you will need to do some tying together of your concepts “as you go along” in the paper (i.e., provide good transitions between issues; note an important connection between a verbal and nonverbal issue that happened at the same time, etc.). But you will also need to give some separate space to pull your four concepts all together and discuss how the different issues affect one another, in order to draw your more complex conclusions.