Read each of the following sentences aloud. Did you perform a linguistic act? If so, explain what the sentence means and why it might not seem meaningful. 1. The old man the ship. 2. Colorless green...

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Read each of the following sentences aloud. Did you perform a linguistic act? If so, explain what the sentence means and why it might not seem meaningful.

1. The old man the ship.

2. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like bananas.

4. The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi.

5. The square root of pine is tree.

6. The man who whistles tunes pianos.

7. To force heaven, Mars shall have a new angel. (from Monk)

8. “’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.” (from Lewis Carroll)

And now some weird examples from Dan Wegner’s Hidden Brain Damage Scale. If these make sense to you, it might be a sign of hidden brain damage. If they don’t make sense, explain why:

9. People tell me one thing one day and out the other. 10. I feel as much like I did yesterday as I do today.

11. My throat is closer than it seems.

12. Likes and dislikes are among my favorites.

13. I’ve lost all sensation in my shirt. 14. There’s only one thing for me. 15. I don’t like any of my loved ones.






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CHAPTER 2 ■ The Web of Language


Discussion Questions

1. When an actor on a stage says lines such as “To be or not to be, that is the question,” does the actor perform a linguistic act?

2. When someone hums (but does not sing) the “Star-Spangled Banner,” does she perform a linguistic act? Why or why not?

3. Can a speaker mispronounce a word in a sentence without performing any linguistic act? Why or why not?


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Answer To: Read each of the following sentences aloud. Did you perform a linguistic act? If so, explain what...

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Given sentence did not perform linguistic act because
all the sentences are incomplete. Moreover, the sentences are not grammatically correct. Meaningless sentence do not perform linguistic act. Meaning of all the sentences are not at all clear.
1. The phrase means the actor is creating confusion among their audiences about whether a certain task has to be done or not. The actor is trying to make the audiences think in a certain way about either doing certain tasks or whether they want to exist or remain alive. Thus it is a linguistic act as the politeness in the speaker's voice...
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