Pragmatics Reflection

     Our speech situation for pragmatics project was restaurant. We researched about greeting and conversation in restaurant. We chose this topic because this is very common situation to live in Hawaii and we can use some after our research.

     There are many kind of restaurant here, from much expensive one to students familiar one. To research conversation in expensive restaurant was hard for us because we don't money enough to go to that kind of restaurant for this research. So I went to a restaurant like I can eat hamburger, not so expensive but with services. I knew some phrases there from other's conversations. However, I felt it is difficult to take notes on the table. So I typed some in my phone at that time and enjoyed my eating. After my visiting the restaurant, I looked for other phrases on many other situations like in expensive one by asking some native speakers and on the internet. 

       This pragmatics research skills; taking notes, checking online, and asking someone, are helpful to learn what to say in English. When I don't know what I should say on the situation, I try to hear someone's speaking. Almost time I can't hear though. But if I can catch some words, that is so helpful and I can learn at that time without looking for on the internet or other ways later. Also, asking someone who speak English is also very useful. They tell me many phrases very kindly and those might be more natural and common than phrases I researched on the internet. I can use these skills for other many situations and my classmates' researches are also useful for me. There were many sentences which I didn't know. This project was so good for us.