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Awkward Turtles from Different Circles

05 Thursday Jul 2012

Posted by brightbluesaturday in Facts, Language and Culture

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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.

The Completely Non-Awkward Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Continue reading →

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