Seductions bribes requests solicitations and threats often veiled even though both parties know what they mean Language Veiled bribe Language is a window into social relations Indirect speech act hide intentions in innuendo Language has to do 2 things 1 Convey content 2 Negotiate a relationship type 3 human relationship types 1 Dominance 2 Communality 3 Reciprocity business like relationship Behavior that is acceptable in one relationship is not in the other Friends shouldn t do business Friendship and sex anxiety of dating We know that they know that we know that they know It s easier to ask with figurative language Can t take it back with overt language it s out there Just because there isn t a word for it doesn t mean that you don t know what they re talking about It is not what language allows us to think about but what it obliges us to think about If your mother tongue assigns gender to inanimate objects then you will inherently see those object as male or female and give them male or female traits in your mind Egocentric our bodies Geographic the earth If it s the 1 thing you don t know exclusion If using I more often could be depressed or sick Women use social words more Men use emotion words more Wernicke s area damage can t describe in proper nouns but very outgoing There s this right Turn at that place then keep going over there Men use we words more Mutual knowledge is why we use innuendos Fast food drugs bad for you Fancy food sex Never heard those words before but understand it Can grasp knowledge Jim is guilty because he uses a lot of me words the a and an the author is most likely male males us more article words
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