http://acw.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:23:08 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/group-presentation-first-draft.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/group-presentation-first-draft.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/group-presentation-first-draft.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:23:08 -0700 Here's the first draft of the presentation. I don't have your emails, so I'll just post it up here. See you guys on tuesday. Semantics and Pragmatics Group Presentation The story of our group presentation begins a long time ago in this very cl... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://acw.vox.com/library/post/group-presentation-first-draft.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500e398f2018c0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://acw.vox.com/library/post/declining-politely-in-japanese.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/declining-politely-in-japanese.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/declining-politely-in-japanese.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:07:29 -0700 The article of Japanese reminded me of JPN 101 class which reminded me of how Japanese conversational habits demonstrate some of the politeness concepts we’ve been discussing. For instance, Japanese people tend to avoid saying no directly (‘bald’... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://acw.vox.com/library/post/declining-politely-in-japanese.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500f48cec96fa0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://acw.vox.com/library/post/turn-taking.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/turn-taking.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/turn-taking.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:28:50 -0700 Sidnell's article "Conversational Turn-taking in a Caribbean English Creole" gave me much food for thought regarding conversation analysis. Specifically the specialized vocabulary. I'm going to attempt to give examples of some of these vocab/conce... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500e398ec8d3a0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://acw.vox.com/library/post/eschew-obfuscation.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/eschew-obfuscation.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/eschew-obfuscation.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:52:53 -0700 One aspect of Grice's Maxim of Manner is avoiding obscurity. A deliciously ironic 'synonymous' locution of this maxim is to eschew obfuscation, which actually 'shews' in obfuscation as it poses the imperative to eschew it! (Because eschew and obfu... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://acw.vox.com/library/post/eschew-obfuscation.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500f48ceb03390003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://acw.vox.com/library/post/grandmas-pragmatics.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/grandmas-pragmatics.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/grandmas-pragmatics.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:59:43 -0700 Today's class reminded me of the many seemingly irrelevant locutions my grandma uses in conversation. So, if she couldn't see the television and would like me to move, she would not use positive politeness, negative politeness, a bald request or ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://acw.vox.com/library/post/grandmas-pragmatics.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500f48d09a8f50001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://acw.vox.com/library/post/how-many-locutions-does-it-take-to-get-to-the-center-of-an-illocutionary-force-pop.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/how-many-locutions-does-it-take-to-get-to-the-center-of-an-illocutionary-force-pop.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/how-many-locutions-does-it-take-to-get-to-the-center-of-an-illocutionary-force-pop.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:32:34 -0700 There are, apparently, many ways to skin cats. In a similar vein, there are many ways of saying the same thing, that is to say, to say the same thing in a different more linguistic way, there are many different locutions that have the same illocut... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://acw.vox.com/library/post/how-many-locutions-does-it-take-to-get-to-the-center-of-an-illocutionary-force-pop.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500f48d06af870001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://acw.vox.com/library/post/deictic-center-meets-takebring-distinction.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/deictic-center-meets-takebring-distinction.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/deictic-center-meets-takebring-distinction.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:06:13 -0700 In class we talked about the take versus bring distinction. How 'bring' goes toward the speaker or hearer and how 'take' means away from speaker or hearer. This made us raise an outraged outcry against the blasphemous sentence: 'Take it here'. Thi... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://acw.vox.com/library/post/deictic-center-meets-takebring-distinction.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500e398e98d1e0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://acw.vox.com/library/post/the-most-deictic-sentence-ever.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/the-most-deictic-sentence-ever.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/the-most-deictic-sentence-ever.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:17:37 -0700 I had a dream: to craft the deicticest sentence EVER. Now that dream has been realized. Behold: Thou o'er yonder, we settle this there tomorrow! Thou - social deixis - conveys informality normally with speaker, however this is being used ironica... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://acw.vox.com/library/post/the-most-deictic-sentence-ever.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500f48ce59b760003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://acw.vox.com/library/post/msp---performative-verbs.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/msp---performative-verbs.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/msp---performative-verbs.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:06:35 -0700 I am intrigued by performative verbs. Could it be that these magical utterances actually perform their represented action in the very act of speaking them? If so, they are like the magic spells of yore. In the act of saying 'I vow to do my blog po... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://acw.vox.com/library/post/msp---performative-verbs.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500f48d040d220001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://acw.vox.com/library/post/practice-exercises-in-semantics-2.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(ACW) http://acw.vox.com/library/post/practice-exercises-in-semantics-2.html?_c=feed-rss http://acw.vox.com/library/post/practice-exercises-in-semantics-2.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:54:38 -0800 free gift; kill you dead - syntagmatic - hold between items which occur in the same sentence; they are an expression of coherence constraints.pleonastic abnormality - one of the combined terms adds nothing new to the other, thus is redundant. Free... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://acw.vox.com/library/post/practice-exercises-in-semantics-2.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d2b01b000500e398e083d40004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>