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How to Reform our Language?

How to Reform our Language?. Meaning Behind our Communication, Power of Language, Awareness around Inappropriate Jokes By: Poran Poregbal www.middlepeace.com. Sigmund Freud. Freud in “Jokes and their Relations to the Unconscious” (1963):

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How to Reform our Language?

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  1. How to Reform our Language? Meaning Behind our Communication, Power of Language, Awareness around Inappropriate Jokes By: Poran Poregbal www.middlepeace.com www.middlepeace.com

  2. Sigmund Freud Freud in “Jokes and their Relations to the Unconscious” (1963): “A jokes is a judgment which produces a comic contrast” “Relation to the object of the joke is the concealed ugliness of the world of thoughts: www.middlepeace.com

  3. Purpose of the Jokes • Tendentious: amdi, gerayesh dar • Non-tendentious: baraye khandeh • Jokes as a social process • Jokes as a neurotic illness • The relation of jokes to dream and to the unconscious • Social context www.middlepeace.com

  4. Jokes according to Freud • A contrast of ideas • Sense of nonsense • Meaninglessness of the words • Look at the differences rather than similarities • Playing with ideas • Insulting and wounding purposes www.middlepeace.com

  5. Hidden Meanings • Need for Awareness around the Power of Language, Inappropriate Jokes, and our Way of Communicating; Away from bias, disrespect, and bullying • Words to be explored: Power, Language, Joke, Communication, Bias, Disrespect, Bullying www.middlepeace.com

  6. Language to unite us • We should reform the language to include everyone • We have a choice of using the language respectful www.middlepeace.com

  7. Loss of Power • What kind of power do we have when joking about serious things • Power comes from: Status, social class, gender, religion, language use, way of conveying message to others, …… • What do we say in that situation? www.middlepeace.com

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  12. Language • Communication • Showing emotions • Describing incidents • Telling things • Facts- behaviors-thoughts • Ideological and political meaning • Connecting people • Physical, psychological, spiritual, emotional discourses www.middlepeace.com

  13. What do we Talk about? Ethical issues in language use : Offensive, defensive, submissive, demanding, threatening, & responsive • Use of empathy, use of taaroof, use of labels, use of names…… • Greetings, how are you doing? www.middlepeace.com

  14. Joke • Should be fun, yet respectful • Should bring laughter, not pain • Should create connection not disconnection • Should be general, not specific • No specific ethnicity • Someone from …… www.middlepeace.com

  15. Communication Styles Assertive : I messages….. • self-confident, • clear message, • eye contact, • good tone, • respectful, • fluent talk, • firm gestures www.middlepeace.com

  16. Communication Styles Passive Style: • Non-assertive, • Denying or giving away our own rights • Avoiding conflicts by accommodating others • Being submissive or timid • Down cast eyes • Soft voice • Hesitation in words • Helpless gestures www.middlepeace.com

  17. Communication Styles Aggressive Style • Defending self • Violating other’s rights • Ignoring other’s feelings • Demanding • Loud, yelling voice • Emphasizing “you” • Pointing finger at partner www.middlepeace.com

  18. Bias; Taasoob • My point of view only • I know the truth • My group of people are better • Rich people can decide • Only our home country • My language only • One political party • No one else but me and my ideology www.middlepeace.com

  19. Disrespect • Not respecting: not accepting What is respect then? • Accepting others • Trusting others • Valuing others • Doing things collaboratively • Asking opinion www.middlepeace.com

  20. Bullying= Tamaskor, azyat kardan • The act of harming others by making fun of them, assaulting them, or harassing others • Harassment can be verbal, physical, and emotional • Abuser who posses more physical or social power dominance the victim • Dehumanizing and belittling others • In schools, workplaces, between nations, around the word issue www.middlepeace.com

  21. What can we do? • Raise awareness • Talk to your community • Think of your own way of communication • What do we really want to say with jokes? • We can have fun with proper use of language www.middlepeace.com

  22. A joke! • Patient: I am healed, I am cured, l have written a book about horse • Doctor: oh, that is nice, what book is that? • Patient: here it is • Doctor opens the book to see 400 pages of piticu, piticu, piticu………. www.middlepeace.com

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