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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

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2008-04-11T02:50:16Z

I'm going to a big Swing and Lindy Hop dance party saturday night and I am sooo excited. I even went out to buy a new outfit so I look the part. Well, I came home and my parents and brother were sitting chatting and I told them about the clothes I...

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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!

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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...

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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...

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Vitamins or no vitamins?

2008-04-11T01:48:32Z

So I haven't been feeling very healthy lately. Not sure if it's a cold or just allergies but I've been taking some allergy medicine and its been helping some of my symptoms. My mom nags me alot when I'm not feeling good to make sure, as if I'm st...

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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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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. ...

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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...

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