Assignment 2/13: get to know your idiolect

"A man whom, in private conversation, I am on the friendliest terms, sometimes becomes a stranger to me when I haear him speak in public"---Paul Valery

Get to Know Your Idiolect

We are all communicators possessing a complex "repretoire" of codes which we choose from as different circumstances arise. To convince yourself that there are no single speakers, try for an entire day to speak in a SINGLE CODE and NOT VARY the way that you speak as context and circumstances change. 

Then report on the following:

1. Were you successful? If not, explain in detail how and why you failed.
2. How did you feel about what you were doing as your communicative circumstances changed?
3. How did others react to your lack of linguistic acuity?

Then, 

1. Supply AT LEAST TWO brief specific accounts of your linguistic trials. (highlights of your day which illustrate your code fluency)
2. Describe your IDIOLECT (list the codes in your linguistic repertoire-labeling them-that you identified from this exercise AND describe their characteristics in general terms).