@BookClubCali

Romance languages and sociolinguistics 🌎🤝

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Let’s read together!
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The truth, some of the truth, and some other things as well.
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You’ve been invoked. You’ve been pursued. Consider yourself invited, pal. Let me catch you around here again soon.
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[DISMISSAL] “Have a great day!”
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It has happened more than once that somebody who was not in book club was told about book club and their reaction was to attack my qualifications for running a book club. What face-threatening act have I committed against somebody I’ve never met and don’t know anything about?😹📚
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“Do you have every PhD? Do you have experience doing every role at every kind of business described throughout hundreds of books?” “Hey! Nice to meet you.”
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Platonic dialogues often resolve nothing. You are left in a state of aporia on purpose to work it out on your own by thinking for yourself and trying to engage others in conversation. This is the whole point.
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“It is of course through such rules, and through such reaffirming gestures, that society is made safe for the little worlds sustained in face-to-face encounters.” — Goffman
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book club’s work
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There are many situations in which you are guaranteed to meet Brown & Levinson’s “model person” although you may go throughout the rest of your life never having met anybody who gave you the impression that they were Kempis’s imitation of Christ.
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“There are people who will insist on using violence to enforce insults against police officers who have a loaded sidearm pointed at their corruptible flesh and all the legal justification they need to pop their top off. Then they sink into the ground and repeat it forever.”
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The correct object of reading politeness theory seems to be observing and holding yourself and others to certain timeless, universal standards in human communication during face-to-face interactions, but not expecting ourselves to become anything other than what we are.
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“Hello Kitty wouldn’t try to alter human nature. Hello Kitty would just give her friend an apple.”
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“Politeness … is a major source of deviation from such rational efficiency, and is communicated precisely by that deviation.”
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I lovr to read stuff like this and use it to assess the last 200 times a stranger made an inappropriate comment about my body and then initiated a confrontation when I dispelled it with a flick of the wrist. “Who do you think you are?” “Fuck you too then!” “You’re not special.”
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“Harsh or tense quality more often signals impoliteness or dominance.”
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Maybe you’re not telling me anything I want to hear but it’s what you would want to hear about yourself, and now you are doing the wrong thing, wanting the wrong thing, and as a result feel frustrated like a baby. Maybe I’m trying to mind my own business while this is going on.
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