Friday, April 27, 2012
Emma by Jane Austen
Ok, what do you think about doing my literary work on Emma discussing social conventions? My idea is to say how we use different dialogue when we speak with different groups of people, how we disclose or conceal certain information in front of certain people depending on our relationship with them, whether intimately or indifferently connected.
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I think Emma would be a brilliant book to prove your theory of how we speak differently to different groups of people. In particular, the scene where Mr. Knightly rebukes Emma for being rude to Miss Bates, not because of what she said, but because Miss Bates is poor and the fact that she said it in front of an audience. It would also be interesting to tie in the differences in how we speak on facebook or in an open forum, compared to how we would write a paper or speak to someone in person. Not just WHAT we write, but the differences in how we say things.
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