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		<title>Quit While You&#8217;re Ahead: When to leave an argument</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would appear to be a simple notion, yet when it comes to communicating, quitting while ahead is often the last goal in one&#8217;s mind. Especially if the communication at hand is of a heated or escalated nature, winning the argument often comes with the cost of losing the communication war. &#160; Why quit while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language &amp; Humor final</title>
		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s been fun teaching this class. i&#8217;d do it again any time. here&#8217;s my final: Language &#38; Humor Final Exam Spring 2008 &#160; Choose one question from each category. Answer each question thoroughly in one page or less. Please write legibly, since I won&#8217;t be able to grade it otherwise. Provide thoughtful analysis and examples [...]]]></description>
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		<title>final questions and answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for Dan Sanford’s 490/590 seminar: Formulaic Language. i had to pick two out of these four: What is the difference, with respect to idioms, between compositionality and conventionality? Why is it a mistake to confuse the two? How are the questions of whether or not idioms are compositional, and whether or not they’re metaphorical, related? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a fuctionalist turns Prescriptivist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I lost my mind on Twitter and pointed out some often misused words &#38; punctuation marks. For posterity, I will enumerate them again here, having wiped off the overtones of condescension and annoyance. 1. Apostrophe use: some simple guidelines. Apostrophes do not mark plural. Do not use them to mean more than one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nonstandardtransmissions.com/blog/posts/16</link>
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		<title>LING 490/590 Presentation Hand-out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[to explain the data in the last post: Ruth E. Cisneros &#124; LING 590 &#124; Formulaic Language Formulaic Language &#38; Humor: An overview of idiomatic language usage in comedy I. Introduction The initial focus of this paper was to explore the intersection between formulaic language and humor by exposing the former in the latter. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LING 490/590: Formulaic Languauge Presentation Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Formulaic Language &#38; Humor: I. Judy Grimes, Travel Writer &#8211; Use of &#8220;just kidding:&#8221; II. Nick Fehn, Political Humorist &#8211; Use of many idiomatic expressions: III. Chocolate &#8211; acting out of a language chunk:]]></description>
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		<title>notes &amp; quotes on: &#8216;negotiating with demons: the uses of magical language.&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McCreery, John L. 1995. Negotiating With Demons: The Uses of Magical Language. American Ethnologist. Vol. 22, No. 1. 144-164. first way of reading transcription of an incantation by a Taoist healer in Taipei is as text. However, &#8220;dislocated from this primary context, assertions about the significance of particular words or phrases are dubious at best.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nonstandardtransmissions.com/blog/posts/11</link>
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		<title>mid term questions and answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for Dan Sanford&#8217;s 490/590 seminar: Formulaic Language. i had to pick two out of these four: What is formulaic language, what is the lexicon, and what does formulaic language tell us about the lexicon? What are some aspects of language that are difficult to account for in a model of language that makes a clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>edith street chronicles 1, my neighbor to the north</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. my neighbor to the north the answer to the last blog being a bit more obvious to me than what is going on around me, i will postpone that answer in favor of noting the nature of the conversations i&#8217;ve had with my new neighbors. i&#8217;m finding interesting cultural mechanisms and watching the ties [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nonstandardtransmissions.com/blog/posts/9</link>
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		<title>a lingusitic &#8216;what&#8217;s wrong with this picture?&#8217; problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[came across this on the myspace bulletins: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; The Importance of Speaking and Understanding English Language in the USA A Texan is walking through a field, sees a Mexican drinking water from a pool with one cupped hand. The Texan shouts to the Mexican&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. &#8220;Hey don&#8217;t drink that water &#8230;&#8230;. It has cow poop in [...]]]></description>
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