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Attendance: Frits Bovill, Mario Djuhadi, Dinda Pradi
Apologies: None
When: 24 March 2008
Where: MSN
Duration: 1 hour

Activities:

1. Discuss the scoping lists that we did
2. Defining our topics:

-     Popular culture (music, film, fashion, food)
-     Language and colloquialism
-     Customs & Religion
-     The World’s Leading Language

Next meeting plan: Looking for more ideas to refine our topics

· How one culture interprets the characteristics of another: This may include:

Ø How music is interpreted (good, bad, humorous [Eg Eurovision song contest]) this area can be broken down into heaps of categories

Ø Language: for example slang (how slang is formed within a specific country or specific region; how it can be easily misinterpreted or completely misunderstood by another culture … eg. Billy Connolly mimicking a Scotsman who’s accent is so thick, no-one else can understand him; satire)

Ø Fashion: Even within a culture, how time affects people’s perceptions about what is ‘cool’ or ‘funny’

Ø Differences/similarities = what is the threshold, or turning point at which one culture can be interpreted/accepted by another? E.g. Are there universal customs/traits between cultures? Is culture/religion necessary to effective communication between cultures? What are the basic human traits that we all share? I’m thinking there may be room here to identify our ‘problem’; perhaps we could deal with racism or less severely, how different cultures can find a common ground from which to interact with one another…

Ø I’ve got other ideas but can’t remember them!

Activity

Attendance: Frits Bovill, Mario Djuhadi, Dinda Pradi
Apologies: None
When: Sunday, 6 April 2008
Where: QV buidling
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes

Activities:

1. Define topics, problems, aims and to do list on “Official and Rogue Language“

Next meeting plan: Think of design research methods

Activities:

1. Review topics and articles
2. Clarify topic of colloquialism
3. Design a topic overview map that we have covered

Next meeting plan: Refine possible topics

1. Attendance :
Frits Bovill, Dinda Pradi, Mario Djuhadi

2. Apologies :
N/A

3. Research Topics :
Vernacular and Colloquialism

4. Group Roles :
Manager : Frits Bovill
Secretary : Dinda Pradi

5. Distribution of tasks :
Further scoping of related topics as discussed in meeting (no formal task distribution at this stage)

6. Group Issues :
Misunderstanding of the work requirements (to resolve in next class)

7. Other Issues :
Work for each week (refer to ‘Timeline’ page)

Activities:

1. Find possible topics in terms of “Vernacular”, define and did a quick scope on each of them:

• Colloquialism (Afro American, Jargon, )
• Pidgin
• Language context
• Secret Language
• Phonenetics
• Abbreviation
• Connotation

Next meeting plan: Narrow down the topics we have listed, Frits going to bring DVD as a sample of jive talk