Applying the SPEAKING Model

Description

The Assignment In this module you were introduced to the Ethnography of Communication, including Dell Hymes’ original SPEAKING model for analyzing communication. For this assignment, you are to apply the information in the module Introduction to the Western Apache joking imitations of Anglo-Americans that you read about this week in the chapters from Keith Basso’s book Portraits of the Whiteman.   The paper should be a minimum of 500 words in length. In your response paper to the readings apply each of the SPEAKING model elements to the information presented in our Basso reading. Your paper should briefly define each of the module’s 8 components before providing information about the Western Apache joking imitations of Anglo-Americans as described by Basso. Quotes and information from the Basso reading should be cited with specific page numbers. You are welcome to use all information in the module’s introduction, including concepts and research from scholars other than Hymes that are discussed.  If you would like additional information about these concepts, you can refer to the studies that are linked in the discussion. You are also welcome to use any them as sources for your paper but doing so is not required.If you would like to consider the chapters of Basso’s book that we did not read, you can also do so (the link is the module Introduction) though this is not required either.