[311/365] threats
Nov. 7th, 2019 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguist"You tell your husband Kevin, I'll see him real soon" was the cliffhanger that episode finished on.
"I was just thinking about that this morning," I told Andrew. "Because we were talking about threats in this morning's lecture." (Forensic linguistics. This week was "Langauge Crimes.") About how far away you can get from explicit "I will hurt you"-type threats and have something still count as a threat (either illocutionary or perlocutionary! or both!). "So 'say hi to your spouse' could be fine or it could be...not! 'I know where you live' could be because your friend is coming to visit you."
"For Jennie, 'here's some chocolate' could be one!" Andrew said. (She's allergic.) I laughed, yep, he's got the idea.
I don't know if other linguistics students find as many real-life applications for what we're learning. But they seem to follow me around.
"I was just thinking about that this morning," I told Andrew. "Because we were talking about threats in this morning's lecture." (Forensic linguistics. This week was "Langauge Crimes.") About how far away you can get from explicit "I will hurt you"-type threats and have something still count as a threat (either illocutionary or perlocutionary! or both!). "So 'say hi to your spouse' could be fine or it could be...not! 'I know where you live' could be because your friend is coming to visit you."
"For Jennie, 'here's some chocolate' could be one!" Andrew said. (She's allergic.) I laughed, yep, he's got the idea.
I don't know if other linguistics students find as many real-life applications for what we're learning. But they seem to follow me around.
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Date: 2019-11-08 01:52 am (UTC)Let's send them a message.
It's an offer you can't refuse.
Didn't I see you last Saturday?
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Date: 2019-11-08 12:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-11-08 04:30 am (UTC)