The Three Modes of Listening in Reality Television

A strange thing happened to me earlier this week. I actually sat down and watched some television with my family. This was odd because I never really watch any TV. However, it happened to be fortuitous that I did this. You see, my family was watching a reality show – more specifically Hell’s Kitchen starring Chef Gordon Ramsey.
As I watched the show, I could not help but think of the blog we were assigned. The audio of the show provide great examples that could be used for discussing the three modes of listening.
Obviously, reality shows are very dialogue driven entities so much of the show was spent using semantic listening. Of note, though, is the fact that Gordon Ramsey happens to swear like a sailor. As you listen semantically you cannot help but notice how his language is censored. Even though it is censored, and as we discussed in class censoring sometimes advertises the bad word more, we could still get the context of what he was saying from listening to the meaning of the dialogue.
With so much action that goes on visually in the kitchen, I had to also listen causally. From the metallic banging on the screen, we could conclude the items being dropped and the metal nature of the kitchen just from the sounds being emitted.
Unfortunately, I was so busy listening causally and semantically that I did not have any time to listen to sound in a reduced way. I am, however, not sure how much I could have applied reduced listening to the show I was watching.