Although Gnawali sir commented on me saying “Are you feeling sleepy? Why are you yawning” I didn’t feel sleepy at all for the rest of the class as there was going to be a lot of group work especially focusing on poems. But first he checked the assignment that he gave last week. And as…
The paper was an interesting read. It showed the long history behind the existence of interactionist theory. The paper first goes into an overview of the historical background of the interactionist approach. Then it discusses the core issues surrounding it and examines some of the ways in which data are collected in this are of…
Today it was the turn of Gyanendra and Bikash to present their double presentation. I was looking forward to how they have prepared their presentation as I knew that it was going to be an interesting class. First Gyanendra presented his interview with a hermit. It was very interesting and intriguing. By the end of…
Today was very exciting day as I had to present two presentations in which one was on symbolic interactionism and another for discourse analysis of a taxi driver. I was very nervous last week when it was said that mine was the first turn to present an dthat also on both the topics. At first…
Unfortunately today also I was absent for the class. It is my second time and I really don’t want it to happen again. So I really hope that my health will be on my side for this. Even though I was absent I got some pointers from the hands out that Gnawali sir gave. In…
In today’s class we started with Sinclair and Coulthard Model of Discourse Analysis. According to this model, in a class the lesson is divided into transactions which is further divided into exchanges which is further divided into moves which is further divided into acts. According to this model there are 22 acts which are marker,…
A big shock came at the beginning of the class as Dhanapati sir gave us each one presentation and one field work. Well the presentation is fine as I can do some research on the topic of ‘Symbolic Interactionism’ and prepare a good enough presentation. But the real challenge is to prepare at least half…
Today also we continued from where we had left last time. We made sense out of different phrases and images shown to us. We also learnt about locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts. Locutionary acts mean saying something about something using words while Illocutionary mean doing something by saying something and Perlocutionary mean the effect of…
In today’s class, we had a lot of fun making sense of discourse as given in the diagrams given by Dhanapati Sir. Some of the images that we had to make sense out of are as below:
Today I was almost shocked to not see Gnawali sir in the class as he is mostly regular in his classes except when he has other works and it seemed that today was one of those days. Our class was taken by Usha Kiran Wagle who started by taking our multiple intelligence test. I found…
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