2017-03-30 TED: text markers and miscommunication

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 101 “Applying Information” - What do you think the underlined words or expressions mean in these conversations? Do you know about similar markers in other languages?
1 c (The meaning is similar to the more standard sentence, “It was like I was going to die.”)
2 b
3 d
4 a
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For me, “Mm-mmm” sounds more like a negative (similar to “Uh-uh” or “Nuh-uh”).
To make it positive, add ‘h’: mm-hmm / mm-hm, or “uh-huh”
(The intonation is also different, but we don’t have a way to write that in English.)
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The other new way people use “like” is called quotative ‘like’:
He said, “You can’t be here,” and I said, “But this is where I work!”
	= These are the exact words we used.
He was like, “You can’t be here,” and I was like, “But this is where I work!”
	= Maybe these aren’t exactly our words, but the conversation was like (similar to) this.
	(This can also go with imitations of the tones and body language of the conversation.)
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Do you have pragmatic particles in your language that have similar functions to the ones on p. 101? What word or sound do you say when you’re thinking of what to say?
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What are some ways misunderstandings can happen with texting?