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Adjacency pairs, Body language, Conversation analysis, Haptics, Linguistics, Manners, Pragmatics
Thursday’s posts look at sociolinguistics, pragmatics or child language acquisition: accents, stereotypes, the hidden language of communication and how children learn to speak.
Have you ever stopped an analysed why a silence became awkward?
There are some obvious ones. Recently someone asked me if I had any adult films. She meant films not aimed at children, but it was suitably awkward turtle.
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