wh5 = who, what, where, when and why. The five basic questions that are the structure of any story. Explored in "Who says what, where, when and and Why: Context in Conversation." An introduction to Sociolinguistics through Conversation Analysis. wh5 is the blogsite of the book published 2008 by Nanundo-Phoenix, Tokyo.
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| Linear communication model |
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Jennifer: You ever get this kind of message? Just “Please call.”
Jocelyn: Yeah. Sometimes. It’s really impolite.
Jennifer: Impolite?
Jocelyn: Well, if you send a demand like that, it’s good manners to say why. Like “Please call me about the party on Saturday.”
Jennifer: So how do you handle such messages?
Jocelyn: Handle? I just ignore them.
Jennifer: I can’t do that.
Jocelyn: Then send a message back saying, “I’ll call. But what’s it about?”
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Voiceover
Jennifer has received an urgent message containing an urgent command with an unspecified agenda. She calls it impolite but really it feels like a challenge, even an attack.
Jocelyn lets them go by like water off a duck’s back. Jennifer is not the kind of person who can do that.
Jocelyn’s suggestion to counter-challenge by asking for the agenda allows time for preparation. Which would help the exchange. And which people using media sometimes forget when they are not face to face.
Sensible and sensitive.
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