Roommate Community

Is humor more pathos than it is logos or ethos?

Sometimes we communicate better with laugher than we do with words

You bond better when laugh together

Inside jokes

Bitterly, Brad, and Alison Wood Brooks. “Sarcasm, Self-Deprecation, and Inside Jokes: A User's Guide to Humor at Work.” Harvard Business Review, 18 June 2020, hbr.org/2020/07/sarcasm-self-deprecation-and-inside-jokes-a-users-guide-to-humor-at-work

Booher, Dianna. “Gender Communication Styles.” Negotiation Experts, 14 Dec. 2020, www.negotiations.com/articles/gender-bender/

All 6 of us are female

Some of us have boyfriends, how does that affect our gender communication?

Girls tend to communicate better/more often with one another

We tell each other everything

Some of us change from introvert to extrovert or vice versa when we are around someone of the opposite gender

Sirbu, Anca. “The Significance of Language as Tool of Communication.” PROQUEST SciTech Journals, PROQUEST Engineering Journals, PROQUEST Illustrata: Technology, PROQUEST Technology Journals, PROQUEST Military Collection PROQUEST Advanced Technologies & Aerospace, no. 2, 2015

Body language

As roommates we can better detect one another's' emotions or needs based on their type of language

TONE

Fake vs. Authentic

Some roommates get along better than others do, this could cause a change in speech

Proximity of Relationship

Is it someone else outside of our roommate community?

Barrow, Janet. “Why Do We Change the Way We Speak Depending on Whom We're Speaking to?” ALTA Language Services, 16 Nov. 2020, www.altalang.com/beyond-words/change-way-we-speak-depending-speaking/

Breit, Carly. “The Surprising Benefits of Being an Introvert.” Time, Time, 27 Aug. 2018, time.com/5373403/surprising-benefits-introvert/

The main rhetor (Lily) is an extrovert

3 of us are introverts, the other 3 are extroverts

Introverts take more persuasion (aka more logos and ethos are needed to persuade)

No one is defined to just one category. Some of us change on a daily basis.

Sukumaran, Vinesh. “Why We Behave Differently In Different Situations.” The Psychology Of Human Behaviour, 7 Sept. 2018, psychologyofhumanbehaviour.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/why-we-behave-differently-in-different-situations/

Behavior breeds behavior!

We all come from different places

We have unique and personal behaviors, and we have group behaviors