DIE-ALOG: An Analysis of Conversation Rituals

Repeat after me . . . over and over . . . 
Master each phrase perfectly . . . 
Imitate everything . . . 
until falling asleep or slumping over . . . 

	TOM:  Hi Mary!  

	MARY: Hi Tom! 

	TOM:  How are you? 

	MARY: Fine, thank you. And you? 

	TOM:  I'm fine too! What do you do? 

	MARY: I'm a wife-secretary-stewardess-
          mother-overworked-underpaid-
          miniaturized-marginalized-part-human. 
          How about you? 

	TOM: I'm a big-businessman-doctor-solider-important
           overpaid-privileged-fat-imperialist-beast
           smiling-with-sharp-pointed-teeth. 

	MARY: Oh, that's nice.

	TOM:  Yes, it is. Good to meat you, Mary.

	MARY: Yes. Have a nice day!


Melissa: Too many conversations seem dead from the start.

Liao:    Don't you think this is a good example?

Melissa: I'm not sure.

Liao:    What makes any conversation 'alive'?

Tim:     Maybe we need to look at the agenda behind it . . .


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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  Some thoughts about gender roles, fossil conversations, and dialog rituals.
KEYWORDS: gender stereotypes, speech acts, conversation rituals

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1997 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2011 in Tokyo, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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