LING 15 Lecture Notes - Valley Girl, Pragmatics
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To friends: i hiked through the armstrong forest in guerneville. It was pretty cool but it was kind of dark and cold and the trails were super confusing. At one point, we got lost and i started freaking out bc we were going on an undefined path and then we finally made it back to the car but i was shook. To parents: i hiked through the armstrong forest. It was a lot of fun, kind of dark and cold. Indexical meaning: how one positions oneself socially- want to be seen as professional, though. It was free. superior, subordinate, comical, part of certain group. Use slang, tone of voice (sound confident, valley girl) Metaphor: one set of terms describe something else. Semantics & pragmatics: info encoded by words & phrases in multiple ways. Destination and last stop mean same thing but have slightly different meanings. Semantics- words and phrases link to concepts.
