Review of Wednesday's class

What is an adjacency pair? Where does the term come from? How was it first 'discovered'? What are its features? How does it relate to Chomksy (as noted in class)?

Formulaicity- what is it's social value in East vs. West cultures? Appropriateness, authenticity, creativity, etc. ?

What is the benefit of highly formulaic adjacency pairs in an Asian language? What seems to be the downside for Westerners learning Asian languages? What aspects of social interaction are more stressful in Asian interaction vs. American interaction? What is more stressful about American interaction? What misanalysis are Asian learners of English likely to make and to transfer to her interactional grammar in English language contexts? How does this relate to the specifically American cultural practice of buying and sending greeting cards?

What is pragmatic competence?
What does ee claim about "women's intuition"?
How does this relate back to formulaicity and the social meaning attributed to it?

What does Goffman offer as the motivation for greeting and closing rituals in human interaction? What does this have to do with face?
How does this relate to Garfinkel and phatic communion? What is small talk? What problems arise in conflicting expectations about formulaicity and phatic communion?

What impact does the fact that Japanese typically leaves out 74% of the subjects in sentences have on interactional interpretive processes? In other words, how does it relate to the collaborative construction of meaning in interaction?

What is the main problem for cross cultural communication in using animals as metaphors for various human personality characteristics? What other sources of metaphor might be subject ot the same pitfalls? How would you go about eliciting information from a native of a particular culture that would circumvent misunderstandings based on animal (or other) metaphors?