Assignments on greetings
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From Duranti (1997)
1. Greetings are routinely
expected to occur at the beginning of a social encounter. In what sense does
Italian greeting �iao!� violate the perception?
2. Greetings are made typically
in "adjacency pair" format. Give a short explanation of how this is so.
3. Which of the following
are not the points Duranti argues against?
a. Greetings are highly routinized.
b. Greetings have no propositional content and no informational value.
c. Greetings are always completely predictable.
d. The sole function of greeting is to establish or confirms social relations; that is, greetings are phatic exchanges.
e. The occurrence of greetings defines a unit of interaction.
4. The occurrence of greetings
and the ways in which they are carried out typically identify a particular class
of people. Discuss the two ways Duranti discusses on how this can be so.
5. In some tribal societies, it is a moral imperative to greet each other when
two people are seen progressing toward one another. How do you explain this
behavior in these societies with regard to the function of greeting?
From Park (2006):
1. What are the two characteristics of phatic expressions?
2. What are the tokens used in Korean greetings related to?
3. What are the strategies of phatic expressions in Korean?