Institutional Talk - Comment on Taylor Cobb's blogpost

This week I commented on Taylor Cobb's blog: 
http://tjcobb3.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/institutional-talk-in-123-words.html

I wasn't too sure how to put pictures in the post when it was on someone else's blog- well it wouldn't let me paste a picture, so i hope posting this here is okay. 

Hi Taylor,

I agree with Corey, i enjoyed reading your blog because it was concise and got straight to the main point of this weeks reading that interactions in institutions have set scripts to follow.

From doing some of my own research, I found that many researchers in the past have similarly explored differences in speaking practices in institutional interaction and everyday conversation. Findings reveal that institutional formats vary from strictly formal interactions, such as for instance court proceedings, to less formal interactions, such as most social work consultations (Svennevig, 2010). Like how you've made reference to the psychologists example I looked more closely at the social work institutional example. It has been well noted that social workers allow considerable amounts of small talk and may employ practises associated with informal conversation. This off course is the expected kind of talk from a social worker, since their role is to improve the lives of individuals, groups or a community by developing a trusting relationship so the individual, group or community feels they can open up to the social worker.

I think the concept of institutional talk in certain work settings is important to maintain adequate professional structure, I mean if a corporate lawyer or a brain surgeon was to use offensive profanity in their workplace, their credibility and  professional presentation would perhaps be questioned, whereas if a builder was to use swearing in their workplace this would be acceptable and probably cheered upon. 

This brings me to the end of my soc250 blog posts/comments. yaaay :)