Body Language and Space

Nonverbal Communication
Conversation Partnering #5

Isabella and I had a lot of fun with finding out about nonverbal communication. We didn’t realize that we used so much of it until we where trying to write it out. At one point we even when and asked her mom about some of them. She would do the symbols but when I asked her what they meant she would just say there where very bad and to never do them.

The ones I do a lot are the Persian symbols for:

He’s Crazy (hand next to head them shake it)
F*** You (thumps up)
Please (moving open hand down face)

The ones Isabella uses in Spanish are:

F*** You (half fist)
No Way (thump and pinky up rest down)
Cheating (thump and pinky up rest down over someone’s head)
Hand Down (indicating someone’s gay)
You’re Dead or I’m Going To Kill You (thump on throat)
Something Bad (two fingers on either side on nose)

We couldn’t figure out her level of Edward Hall four zones: Inmate, Personal, Social and, Public. I know that she doesn’t like people being to close and that she has a large range of personal space but we weren’t to shear what they where in feet. It’s funny that even after all this time we still will do that back words step dance when I don’t realize I’ve gotten to close.

Sentence Structure

Morphology And Syntax
Conversation Partnering #4

Isabella and I did five sentences that we translated from English to Spanish and then found the syntactic component. When we where doing these sentences we where looking them up online to see if we where spelling them right and when we put them though the translator. We where getting the more formal of the word and then we went thought and did the way people would actually speak it. While we where doing them she was teaching me how to say then in Spanish, and I was having some problem with the pronunciations of the words.

Part 1:

English- I want water.
Spanish- Yo quero agua.
Syntactic Component- Verb Subject

English- I am hungry.
Spanish- Tengo hambre.
Syntactic Component- Subject Verb

English- It’s hot outside.
Spanish- Es ta caliente afuera.
Syntactic Component- Verb Subject

English- I like that color.
Spanish- Me gusto ese color.
Syntactic Component- Subject Verb

English- You are my best friend.
Spanish- Tu eres mi major amigo.
Syntactic Component- Subject Tense Verb

Part 2:

English- I desire water.
More Formal Spanish- Deseo el agua.
Syntactic Component- Verb Subject

English- I am hungry.
More Formal Spanish- Tengo hambre.
Syntactic Component- Subject Verb

English- It’s extremely hot.
More Formal Spanish- Su exterior caliente.
Syntactic Component- Verb Subject

English- I enjoy that color.
More Formal Spanish- Tango gusto de ese color.
Syntactic Component- Subject Verb

English- You are my best friend.
More Formal Spanish- Usted emi major amigo.
Syntactic Component- Subject Tense Verb

Contrastive Consonant Chart

Contrastive Consonant Chart
Conversation Partnering #3

Isabella and I when thought the Phonemic Translation Chart and found out those types of the phonetic alphabet she used. The ones we found where:

p
d
t
g
m
n
v
s
z
3
Upside down r
j
u
d3
o
a
Backwards cI
au

Kinship

2.2 Kinship Diagrams
Conversation Partnering #2

At looking at Isabella’s family chart I find out that in Spanish they don’t distinguish between there moms side of the family and there dads.

Abvelo (grandpa)
Abvela (grandma)
Tia (aunt)
Tio (uncle)
Prima (cousin girl)
Primo (cousin boy)
Mama (mom)
Papa (dad)
Hermana (sister)
Hermano (brother)

Where as in my family because we speak Farsi I have different names for my moms side and my dads side. This can get very complicated. Because I always refer to the one I am blood related to different then the one they married. Same with there children, I refer to them by the one I am related to them by.

Padarbozorg (grandpa)
Motherbozorg (grandma)
Amehie (aunt, dad’s sister)
Amo (uncle, dad’s brother)
Zanamoe (uncle wife, dad’s brother, if married to blood uncle)
Khalhe (aunt, mom’s sister)
Daye (uncle, mom’s brother)
Zandaye (uncle wife, mom’s brother, if married to blood uncle)
Paseramo (cousin boy, uncle’s son)
Dokhtermao (cousin girl, uncle’s daughter)
Paserdaye (cousin boy, uncle’s son)
Dokhterdaye (cousin girl, uncle’s daughter)
Baba (dad)
Moman (mom)
Khhar (sister)
Bardar (brother)

Color Charts

2.1 Color Charts
Conversation Partnering #1

At looking at the color charts you can see where we would have some difficulties in distinguishing what we consider the same colors. Where as I have a larger range of blue, green, red, and purple, Isabella has a larger concept of white, black, and yellow. She also has pink on her chart, which I do not have. The two colors that don’t show up on either of our chart are brown and orange.

Isabella and I

Isabella and I

My partner for this project, who I shall refer to as Isabella, speaks fluent Spanish. She was born in Veracruz, Mexico and we have been friends for a long time. I chose her for this project so that I could get to know her and her language better. Since I come a Persian family and she comes from a Mexican family, I thought that she would be an intrusting partner for this project and so that I could learn her points of view on language and culture.