Karen F’s blog

Silence

2008-04-10T19:58:42Z

After reading the article about silence in Japanese conversation I found myself thinking about it. When you are face to face empty silence doesn't really exist because you can pick up on non-verbal cues such as smiling, nodding but what about the...

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"The" Party

2008-04-10T19:53:36Z

So yesterday I received a voicemail from my sister declaring, "The party is at 2 p.m. at the house". After listening to this I started thinking about the explicatures of this statement. "the party", whose party? My niece's birthday was last m...

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I've dyed my hair....

2008-04-04T15:01:25Z

A girl I work with is constantly dying her hair and asking "do you like my hair". Yesterday she attempted to bleach the blue dye out of her hair and now has multi-colored hair, gray in spots, blue and pink in others, and even a few streaks of bl...

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Negative Politeness

2008-04-04T14:54:15Z

So, yesterday I received an email from someone I have been friends with for a long time. We were very close for years and just recently lost contact with each other. The email read as follows: Hey, Before I bother with a long, drawn out email,...

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The explicit requests of a two-year-old

2008-03-28T18:23:02Z

So, one of the commercials that absolutely crack me up is the car commercial where the people are making requests similar to those you would to get your mp3 car player to play such as "Play artist Seal". I absolutely love the part where the woman...

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Signs and Perlocutions

2008-03-28T18:13:08Z

After our class discussion I started thinking about the signs we see everyday and the perlocutions that could accompany them. For example, Slippery When Wet might yield the reaction of slowing down on a wet road. It might yieldt the response,...

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Do these jeans make me look fat???

2008-03-21T00:09:48Z

In class we have been talking about deictics and I just remembered one instance of spatial deictics, specifically gestural from that silly newlywed show on ABC, "Here Come the Newlyweds". One wife was talking about asking her husband if "these je...

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A Rose By Any Other Name...

2008-03-20T17:53:07Z

We have all heard the phrase, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" but do you think a kleenex by any other name would still be a kleenex. In chapter 16 we looked at definite references and the use of proper nouns so how does the prope...

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I know, I know!!!

2008-02-28T22:09:50Z

Dr. Myers used a phrase in class the other day when she was talking about someone telling her that her question, "what do people mean by going semantics", that I have just recently realized is used frequently, especially Rachel Ray. She said the ...

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A Bump in the Road

2008-02-28T21:58:40Z

Before class, we realized that the in class written analysis is only worth 10% of our final grade. Boy, wasn't that a relief to hear. Makes me feel a little silly for staying up until 2 am preparing for it. It wasn't that bad after all. So, I...

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