Domestic Violence

By: Kendell Porter, Avery Brown, Adam Chase

Language
How can a speaker's language affect the audience?
-According to James Paul Gee, language is not what you say but how you say it.
This can be applied to Domestic Violence activists. When they speak, sometimes it is the
way they say things that can affect the people in the audience rather that what they say.
The way they use impactful statistics or tell powerful stories will move the audience more
or less depending on the way they are speaking.
- Two speakers can say the same thing but can affect the audience in different ways
just based on how they say what they say.
Language
Can a speaker's language persuade people to act in a certain way?
- According to Andrew Arno persuasion is both a source and instrument of power that can be used to
influence the behavior of others.

- This can be applied to Domestic Violence activists because many activists use persuasive
language to encourage people to take action when they know someone is in an abusive
relationship. Many speakers encourage people to stand up and speak out against domestic
violence when they know that it is going on instead of just being a bystander.

- These activists can use persuasive language as a tool to try to get other people to join the fight
against domestic violence.
Tony Porter
Tony Porter is an Domestic Violence activist that focuses on preventing domestic and
sexual violence through promoting healthy manhood.
-He has a very deep voice that sort of demands your attention

- He tells stories about his children as well as stories about his own childhood that are powerful and
captivating

-He is very direct

-When the camera points at the audience you can tell that they are hanging onto his every word.

https://youtu.be/td1PbsV6B80
Leslie Morgan Steiner
Leslie Morgan Steiner is a survivor of domestic violence who delivered a powerful Ted
Talk in 2013
-She tells the story of her abusive relationship and captivates the audience

-From the way that she tells her story, you can put yourself in her shoes

-She paints a great picture of her relationship and makes you really understand what someone in an
abusive relationship is going through.

-You can tell that what shes saying is impacting the audience.

https://youtu.be/V1yW5IsnSjo
 Annotated Bibliography
Works Cited
Arno, Andrew. "Impressive Speeches And Persuasive Talk: Traditional Patterns Of Political Communication In Fiji's Lau Group From The
Perspective Of Pacific Ideal Types." Oceania 56.2 (1985): 124-37. Web.
This source was okay for this topic but I just pulled a couple of points that he made and used it to relate to what I was analyzing about my discourse
community. He wasnt writing about domestic violence activists but I thought he made a couple points that could be applied to domestic violence
activists.

Gee, James Paul. "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction." Journal of Education. N.p., 30 Nov. 1988. Web. 03 Apr. 2017.
This source was great for this topic because language was clearly defined and thoroughly explained. This article served as a good starting point
for this project. I feel like the first step to me analyzing the language of Domestic violence activists was to get a good understanding of the
definition of language.

Porter, Tony. "A Call to Men." Tony Porter: A Call to Men | TED Talk | TED.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Apr. 2017.
This video was a good source for this topic because it is an example of the part of this discourse community that I am analyzing.
I was not analyzing his specific message, instead I was analyzing his language and how he got his point across. I think this Ted Talk is great
example of how the way a speaker says things can impact an audience.

Steiner, Leslie Morgan. "Why Domestic Violence Victims Don't Leave." Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why Domestic Violence Victims Don't Leave | TED
Talk | TED.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Apr. 2017.
The annotation for this source is the same as the one from above. They are both Ted Talks and I used them both for the same reason.
Gender
Why do men turn a blind eye to these women domestic violence activists?
- Men do not think that domestic violence is not a problem.

- Men hear about gender issues and immediately think womens issues so they do not pay attention
to the women activists.
Gender
Why are most domestic violence activists women?
- The majority of domestic violence cases are about women.

- According to the statistics women of all ages are being domestically abused compared to men.
Jason Katz
Jason Katz is a anti-sexism educator who was trying to educate people about gender when
it comes to domestic violence.

- He talks about how when gender is said that it is automatically associated with women.

- He talks about how gender issues is also associated with women and how men do not listen because it
is not associated with them
Statistics
 Annotated Bibliography
Barrier, Patricia. Domestic violence. Mayo Clinic Proceedings;Rochester. Vol. 73, March 1998, pp.271-274

The peer-reviewed article above was about the statistics of how many women would come into the hospital about a domestic violence
dispute and would talk about the men as being the perpetrators of the incidents. The article would also talk about how to spot people
who have been domestically abused or who are in a relationship with an abusive partner.

Dziegielewski, Sophia. Domestic Violence. pp. 9-23, web. 23 Sep. 2008.

The peer-reviewed article above talks about the different laws placed on domestic violence and how it helped out women. The article
also talks about the reasons why women and children did not leave after the domestic violence happened. The article talks about how
domestic violence was at the time it was published. The article talks about how men never saw domestic violence as a problem until
laws were passed forbidding hitting your family members.

Katz, Jackson. "Violence against Women-it's a Men's Issue." Jackson Katz: Violence against Women-it's a Men's Issue | TED Talk |
TED.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2017.

Jackson Katz talks about how gender is associated with women and how when men here something about women they do not bother
listening because it is not about them. He also talks about how gender violence issues were seen as women issues that men help out with
and he goes on talking about it is men's issues for not fixing the domestic violence.
Race
What races are these activists and does that affect their message they are trying to
convey?

Going to many of these organizations websites can show the variety of people working in these activists groups.

Most people that work in these groups tend to be either white or black, however more groups supporting other
races have started showing up.
Race
Has the issue of race in domestic violence cases become as prevalent as the gender
issue?

When domestic violence was first becoming a big issue in society it was mostly focused on gender.

More well-known cases such as the O.J. Simpson case has brought the issue of race into the spotlight when
talking about domestic violence.
 Annotated Bibliography
NewComer, Laura. "20 Standout Groups Stopping Domestic Violence." N.p., Oct. 2013. Web. 3 Apr. 2017. <
http://greatist.com/happiness/stop-domestic-violence-organizations>.

Just a small article highlighting some of the major activist groups trying to stop domestic violence. This was used to see all of the different
groups and if they supported specific ideas or a certain type of person. Overall the amount of information on this article was very little.
My main reason for using it was to see the different kinds of people that work for these activist groups.

Locke, L.M. & Richman, C.L. Sex Roles (1999) 40: 227. doi:10.1023/A:101889892156

This article is about how the effects of gender and races come into play when dealing with domestic violence cases. This article helps when
trying to answer the question about has race become as prominent as the gender issue. Also this source could be good to answer
questions about topics on gender.

"Violence and Safety Full Section." Women in the States. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr. 2017.

Website about how women in the states are affected by domestic violence. Good source for those who want to know more about how
women are affected.
Laws
What kind of laws were put in place to protect domestic violence
victims?
- During the 19th century domestic violence became an issue throughout the
country and laws began to be established for the protection of mainly married
women against the physical abuse of their husbands. An example of this was
a law declared in the Massachusetts in that banned married men to strike
their wives in the Massachusetts Body of Liberties. As time went along
Tennessee became the first state to ban the use of the possession of firearms
of an offended domestic violence abuser.
Laws
Before historically recent judicial creation and revision of laws
concerning domestic violence, how did history handle this issue?
- Before the tremendous efforts were put to protect people from domestic
violence, men were allowed to beat women. In Milwaukee, Minnesota the city
held an experiment that monitored the deaths of victims before and after the
the abuser was warned. The Womens Movement in the 70s helped enforced
more laws to specifically women and even some to protect the children or
other family in the Family Violence Prevention Act. Additionally,here were
three Violence Against Women Acts enforced in 1994, 2000, and 2005.
Laws
What does the stratification of domestic violence supporters around the
U.S say about those regions?
- Domestic Violence has not been an issue just in the United States. Around
the world, women are mainly the victims of physical abuse. A trend around the
physical security of women is in less developed and economically advanced
parts of the world, the rates of the abuse of women is higher in comparison to
more developed parts with legislature to protect the victims. While women
arent the only victims of domestic violence, the ratio of that to men is higher.