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=  Blog Spot  This is where I'll post the latest scoop on my research project. Initial proposal: I'm planning on completing my research project on looking at the language differences in various types of discourses or contexts among different cultural groups. Click on the box below to read a more detailed description of my proposal. Also, if you have any suggestions of where I could locate information to research different culturals use of language in a variety of different discourses please let me know. I've also created 4 different goals for this project. I would love to have some suggestions as to how to narrow it more, or depending on the research I find, if I should use those as my themes to organize my paper. Comments from Peers:
 * **Journal Entry Date** || **Updates/Information** ||
 * ** 2/5/12 ** || After many suggestions from my initial research proposal, I think I am going to narrow my topic down to   - I would like to learn how the different language styles in different discourses could affect student’s comprehension skills and abilities. I want to look more specifically at storytelling and compare it to a students’ ability to retell and sequence different events/elements and cause/effect relationships from texts.  ||
 * 2/15/12 || I finished my first annotated bibliography. I struggled to find resources at first, but then found some differences in key words I was using and the process got much easier. I need to continue to look for additional resources that are looking at how language is indirect in some cultures and direct in the other. I think that the Kenyan culture tell stories and share their ideas in more indirect ways, which is way their story telling or a child's retelling of a story could potentially be in a more circular format rather than sequential and directly to the point.

I also found the following books that I would like to get more information on to find out if they would work for my research project. They are not in my annotated bibliography. The books with *s I have already or have purchased.

1. __Conversation Analysis: An Introduction__ by Jack Sidnell 2. *__Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach__ by Ron Scollor 3. __Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics__ by Suzanne Romaine 4. *__Social Linguistics and Literacies: Idealogy in Discourses__ by James Paul Gee 5. *__Other People's Words: The Cycle of Low Literacy__ by Victoria Purcell-Gates 6. *__Empires of the World: A Language History of the World__ by Nicholas Ostler ||