Interpersonal Communication Styles Examined in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Through come to the fore the semester, we piddle been introduced to many topics related to interpersonal communication. I lead come to believe that these concepts have allowed me to develop understand interactions that occur in our daily lives. My knowledge of these concepts was challenged when asked to relate these nonions to a movie. During the time that I was ceremony the movie, My Big round Greek Wedding, I realized myself grasping onto what was going on and being able to relate certain scenes and situations to topics I had antecedently learned near. Interactions in My Big Fat Greek Wedding pompousness concepts of engagement and politeness theory, which can be pointed out in a few specific scenes. During the movie, I put in that these concepts that were taught in class armed serviceed me better understand and relate to certain clips of the movie. Throughout the rest of the paper, I go forth be going into a bit more detail close exactly what these concepts are and me an, following that I will be self-aggrandizing examples from the movie that demonstrate the concepts of conflict and politeness theory. The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about a 30-year old and single charr named Toula Portokalos who although has lived a rattling Greek life-style up to this point, decides to pursue a relationship with a non-Greek man. This, of course, is disturbing to her family since they are so proud about their culture, and do not really know anything different. Her whole life, Toula has been instilled with a very traditional Greek outlook on life. She has been expected to do leash things Marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day they die. Throughout the movie, Toula overcomes inner struggles to find her own identity, and she overcomes struggles with her family.The first topic that is found in the movie that was taught in class is conflict. Conflict is expressed variability over perceived incompatible goals. Although it may se em it, conflict is not always a negative thing. Conflict is needed and can help growth of relationships. Many conflicts are started because people have different informal styles. In class, we learned that there are guidelines that one should follow in order to help prevent conflict or help lick it. The guidelines include clarifying goals, helping others save face, using constructive critical review skills, using empathic listening skills, monitoring nonverbal be... ...er try to theorise of a way to ask her father. They decide to make him think that he has come up with the idea. Toula?s mother could have flat out say that Toula wanted to work at the travel deputation, but she preferably decides to save his ?face?. She basically decides to ask him in an off-record way. It could be said that the mother manipulates the father in a very clever way, which was credibly a good way to handle the situation. If she would have just asked him bald-faced on record, or with some redress, about Toula working at the agency it may have started an argument.After completing this assignment, I am astonish on how much of a better understanding I have on these concepts. Not only am I able to interrelate them with situations in daily life, but even to the extent at which I can relate them to circumstances in a movie. The two topics that I chose to explore further and relate to the movie and each other were conflict and politeness theory. Not only did I realize my ability to impute such topics to fulfill this assignment, but I somehow feel that my coming(prenominal) experiences watching movies or paying attention to others daily behaviors will be more analytical after completing this assignment.