CIICPD 2023

Stimuli for further pedagogical use: – How did the situation continue? Try to say what happened then? – There is stereotyping in the text. Find and explain it. – What is a “pork schnitzel curry” (line 4). Research it. – How does a “weird look” (line 3) work? What can it mean? When do you use it? How do you react to a look that you perceive as “weird”? – What could be the reasons for the author not continuing the story by not giving a result? CI-narrative 2 Paying a bill in a restaurant 1 I was in Germany and went to a restaurant with a Greek and a Finnish female friends. Some 2 Finnish guy who knew my friends joined us. After the dinner, the guy said he can pay the bill. 3 Both my friends said that is not necessary. The guy said “Ok. That’s fine.” So, everybody paid 4 their own bills. Afterwards, when the guy had left both my friends started to criticize him that he 5 didn’t insist on paying our bill. In my opinion, it was the fault of my friends. They should have 6 accepted his offer to pay the bill immediately. Our second example was written by a staff member. As indicated in the text, the incident happens in Germany and the narrator indicates the national origin and the gender of the involved persons (“a Greek and a Finnish female friends” (line 1) and “some Finnish guy” (line 2), but does not reveal his/her own gender and origin. The narrated time is indicated as the time of a dinner in a restaurant, which in Germany may last approximately between one and two hours. The first two sentences and the title can be considered as the orientation. The title even functions as an abstract anticipating the topic of the complication. The complication (line 2–3) is partly narrated in direct speech (“that is not necessary” (line 3); “Ok. That’s fine.” (line 3)) and ends with the criticism uttered by the two friends summed up by the narrator. The role of the narrator within the complication is not mentioned at all. From the point of view of the two friends, the skandalon happens when the Finnish guy says “Ok. That’s fine” (line 3). From the narrators’ perspective, the complication is only made relevant with the criticism of the two friends. As in our first example, we get no further result but only a coda with the interpretation from the perspective of the narrator why the plan break occurred (“In my opinion, it was the fault of my friends.” (line 5)). The author positions him/herself as a passive observer who does not interfere when the complication occurs. In his/her narrative, s/he does not reveal his/her emotions during the complication. Did s/he feel like an undergoer incapable of intervening when things went wrong? In the coda s/he distinguishes him/herself from his/her friends on the basis of a “better” knowledge about the situation. In contrast, the two friends are represented as undergoers not able to express that they actually would have expected to be invited. The Finnish person is positioned as a person of high constancy and high agency. The way he acts is not questioned.

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