Describe the context and participants for this interpretation based on the exercise title and picture of the speaker. Peter Leary is giving a speech in his Public Speaking class.
Find an example of spatial relationships. Are these relationships preserved in your interpretation? When talking about Aristotle, I set him up in the left signing space. So, when Peter introduced Aristotle’s book and started talking about his views I made sure to set everything up on the left. I tried to do the best I could, but I did not comprehend some of the source message (what Peter was trying to compare to each other—that was confusing).
Find an example of temporal relations. Are these relations preserved in your interpretation? When Peter was talking about the different examples of courage, specifically the boy who was afraid of the dark, I think I could have done a better job of showing that before he was afraid, but now, because of his courage, he had overcome it.
What are the logical relations in this text? Does your interpretation preserve the message and the logical relations? Logical relations: the philosopher to his ideas; each example of courage to the people they are reflecting upon; the relation of the speaker to the audience. I have always had a tough time with setting things up in space. This is something that I need to work on. I know it could have been set up much better if I had time to prep and understood the piece.
Write one hypothesis that you developed that proved to be accurate. Write one hypothesis that you developed that proved to be inaccurate.
Correct hypothesis: I lost where Peter was going with the defining of “courage” so I guessed, and turned out to be right. Incorrect hypothesis: I think the whole part about angels and fools rushing in was a little skewed. I guess I didn’t understand how he was going to apply it to his talk about courage.