Michael Hall’s Family

blogs for project

2008-04-18T00:32:56Z

I'm thinking about looking at these posts: Taxes! - adjacent pairs Movie Reviews - performative verbs Tautologies galore! - Place name tautologies Trees - sense relations across languages

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Group project!

2008-04-11T02:21:42Z

Just wondering about when everyone could get together so that we could work on our group project. I suppose it's about time that we get to working on it!

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Pushing Daisies

2008-04-11T02:20:55Z

Without question, one of the cutest shows on TV these days. Also a very good example of many of the things we talk about in class: There is a narrator that often comes in and explains the words of the characters, such as here: Chuch: what's wron...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Taxes!!!!

2008-04-11T02:17:31Z

I saw a commercial the other day about taxes and it really fit with what we've been talking about with adjacent pairs this week! A guy walks up to a girl and asks: do you know what time it is? she replies (yelling): yes, of course I know what tim...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Principle of Relevance

2008-04-04T15:32:01Z

The 2nd part of the principle of relevance says, as Dr. Meyers put on the board, "Every communicative act carries with it the utterer's belief in its optimal relevance." What about when someone is trying to be as ambigous and obscure as possible. ...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Yesterday we talked a little...

2008-04-04T15:26:23Z

Yesterday we talked a little about performative verbs again. One example we saw was "regret" and "I regretfully decline..." I think many times when we use this phrase regret is not necessarily a performative verb. For a performative verb to actual...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Movie reviews

2008-04-04T00:55:45Z

While watching a bit of tv, I saw a few previews for some movies. I quickly noticed that these frequently use performative verbs: Rolling Stones declares this the best movie of the year 'someone else' raves that... I was just astounded at how th...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Weddings/Churches

2008-04-04T00:49:28Z

When Dr. Myers was talking about the wedding she attended last week, she mentioned that a lot of people try to change their vows to make them their own and such. This got me thinking about church services and how, with many denominations, the sa...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

The agreement maxim

2008-03-28T20:12:50Z

I find the agreement maxim interesting. This maxim is (at times) is basically just a lie. The agreement maxim says we should minimize disagreement and maximize agreement with the hearer. So let's pretend someone gives me an idea. I reply with "I ...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Flouting the maxims

2008-03-28T20:06:26Z

So I've decided that flouting maxims is much more interesting than following them. I'm glad people flout them. If no one flouted these maxims we would have some very boring conversations. Simple sarcasm, irony, and joking often is the result of t...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend