Matt’s Friends and Family

Esoteric?

2008-04-24T06:47:15Z

Peter is dumb. That's all I need to say to set up this FG quote. Lois: It's geat they picked your theme, but isn't it a little esoteric? Peter: Esoteric? (Zoom in to the guys in Peter's brain) Guy1: Could it mean sexy? Guy2: I think it's a sc...

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Flouting vs. Violation

2008-04-24T06:04:43Z

Here is an example of flouting the maxim of quantity. Diane, the reporter on the Quahog news network is introducing her co-worker who is doing a story in the field. Diane: And now to Asian reporter Trisha Takanawa, who filed this report... all by...

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Politeness

2008-04-24T04:51:48Z

Family Guy example. All of my posts will be regarding FG and the analysis of funny quotes from the show. Anyway... Lois: Brian, you're not wearing the sweater I made you. Brian: Well, y'know, it's a little warm in here ... Lois: Don we now our ...

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An Adjacency Pair gone wrong

2008-04-24T04:40:57Z

This excerpt is taken from Family Guy. The two characters talking are the reporters on the local news show. Tom says the first part of a well-known adjacency pair and when Diane responds with the normal answer he takes the opportunity to make fun ...

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Doctor violates the Maxim of Relevance

2008-04-24T04:11:08Z

Here is a very lengthy example of violating the maxim of relevance in a Family Guy episode. Peter goes in for a check up or something and while the doctor is telling Peter and Lois the results the doctor keeps bringing up irrelevant facts. Lois as...

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Group Presentation first draft

2008-04-20T21:23:08Z

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...

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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

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CA

2008-04-11T20:19:25Z

One of the aspects of conversation that I find interesting is repair. This is the act of clearing up problems of communication (i.e. speaking, hearing, understanding) and in CA is usually defined in terms of who initiates the repair and who ultima...

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silence

2008-04-11T20:07:40Z

This week we discussed the role of extralinguistic communication in creating an equal opportunity for members of a conversation to have the floor. We discussed several models for how silence in conversation is negotiated by the members of the grou...

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Who's Turn is it?

2008-04-11T18:31:53Z

So, as in my previous post I mentioned that I have been thinking about awkward silence during conversations. I was wondering what exactly causes these awkward pauses during our conversations. My theory is that it is one of two things: 1. There is...

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