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Japanese Convos

2008-04-11T18:20:17Z

I thought the article we read about the silence in Japanese language was very interesting. Initially I thought it didn't seem that different from the conversations American speakers have. In other words, I feel like American's use body language ...

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Adjacency Pairs

2008-04-11T18:14:18Z

To make sure I understand adjacency pairs, I've decided to give a few examples. From class: How are you? Fine, thanks. How are you? Hey, there. Hey! You're cute. Thank you. (would "your're cute too" be expected as an adjacency pair?)...

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Niceness rankings

2008-04-03T21:18:52Z

Clinton should win this Presidency a.) "No way, a woman couldn't run this country" b.) "Well, she would make a good leader, but I think McCain would be better." c.) "I agree." Order of niceness: c., b., a. I am finally healed from my ...

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Today's Chart

2008-04-03T21:11:56Z

"To tell someone you love them" __________________________ I ...

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Implicature

2008-03-25T22:58:49Z

Okay I'm going to make sure I know the difference between generalized and particularized implicature. It is cold outside: Particularized because you are talking about it being cold to you in the place you are right now. It is cold in winter:...

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Cooperative and Politeness principles

2008-03-24T15:14:16Z

Hello Everyone! I want to make sure I understand the anomalies. For Cooperative: Maxim of quality: Roger Clemens is a great baseball player accused of using steroids. Roger Clemens doesn't use steroids. (If th...

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Locutionary

2008-03-24T03:05:16Z

I think I understand Locutionary, Illocutionary, and Perlocutionary now. One question I have though, is this: Can any sentence be Locutionary? So for example, Maggie will be visiting the Julia R. Ewen elementary school tomorrow to work on h...

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Deixis!

2008-03-20T03:03:21Z

Hey everyone! Welcom back to Vox. Hope you guys had a great spring break. I thought the deixis conversation was really interesting yesterday but I don't get all of it. So... here's some practice. Let me know what you think. The Carnival cru...

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Analysis Review: Hierarchy levels

2008-02-28T06:24:31Z

The four main hierarchy levels are: Beginner- Animals Superordinate- Lexical Gap Basic- Dogs Subordinate - Shitzu Beginner- Animals Superordinate- Fish Basic- ...

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Analysis Crunch: Metaphors vs. Idioms

2008-02-28T06:20:11Z

I was reviewing for our Analysis and realized I keep getting metaphors and idioms confused. Here are some examples I came up with to help me figure them out. 1.) It's raining cats and dogs- metaphore because it is not literal. In it's li...

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