Reflection of Jerry Chen’s Task 2: https://blogs.ubc.ca/etecjerrychen/2023/09/17/task-2/
How has your colleague’s experience differed from yours? And how do you know?
Jerry’s experience of Dr. Boroditsky’s speech was quite similar to mine in a sense that our personal connections to her concepts were similar. We are both from Chinese backgrounds and when Jerry mentioned the thought of when a Chinese person greets another they ask “have you eaten”, it was a connection I felt on a personal level. A small difference was that when I was listening through the lecture, I did not connect to the differences of greetings based on cultural places as Jerry had in their reflection. Upon doing the linking assignment, that connection was made.
What web authoring tool have they chosen to manifest their work?
One simple concept that Jerry had that I would implement is the posting of the lecture video above for reference. I was able to click on the timestamp with the accessible video and connect their reflections to the lecture in real time. The small accessibility difference manifested an opportunity that is not currently available with my submission of the assignment.
What theoretical underpinnings are evident in your/your colleague’s textual architecture and how does this affect one’s experience of the work?
A concept that was interconnected by Jerry was the amount of detail put towards the connection of Western Culture and Eastern Culture. From examples of hand counting to the way one tells time, the overlapping examples were evident in my colleagues’ textual architecture. Dr. Boroditsky mentions culture and its influence on language. With my task, I focused on how the influence of language is based on thought and how one thinks based off their native language. Jerry focused on the interpretation of common acts such as telling time and counting numbers. The simplicity of understanding the difference in culture was evident throughout Jerry’s reflection on the task.
Overall, there was a sense of reinsurance and an opening new perspective through Jerry’s post of Task 2. There were similarities in our personal experiences in relation to the lecture. As well, seeing different approaches and thoughts to the same statements that Dr. Boroditsky gave a deeper understanding of language and its influence that could not have been found without this linking assignment. I am curious to see if this feeling of reinsurance and opening of new perspective will continue as I connect with more colleagues in this course. I thought perspectives would always be different but now I feel that similar conclusions may occur more often. The diversity of students in this course is a positive aspect of it. I am excited to continue linking content after this first linkage.
Bobby
September 17th, 2023