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31 |
cici |
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descriptive
of a |
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(i) head
massage |
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(ii) kick |
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(iii) kiss |
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opi
cüshe cici
pi-e |
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‘(somebody
massaged (the) head ci#ci#....’ |
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a-no
pfoyi mosü cici
pte |
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‘I kicked
him cici.....’ |
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a-no
lopüiyi macü ci#ci#
pi-e |
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‘I kissed
her cici’ |
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32 |
pfüpfü |
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descriptive
of the sound of kissing |
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a hikho-no
ahiayi
macü pfüpfü-pi-e |
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‘Athikho
kissed Athia pfüpfü’ |
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AMENITIES
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Many, perhaps most, of the following linguistic amenities,
conveyances serve a phatic function. They mark phatic communion,
social solidarity. Nearly all of them are set expressions, as may
be expected, the word ‘nearly’ accounting for the second below :
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I |
kralo-e |
__
‘thanks’ |
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kralo
shu-e |
__ ‘thanks
very much’ |
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II
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A kind of social greeting is to ask a question which is rhetorical
rather than earnest about
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what the listener is in fact doing. Such a greeting traverse
interpersonal, and, what is more
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interesting (from the viewpoint of some other cultures),
unfamiliar space, breaks social ice
and opens a dialogue.
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| 1. |
vu
- a/e - o |
‘coming
?’ |
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| 2.
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vu -
i
- o |
‘already
came ?’ |
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| 3. |
bu
- i
- o |
‘sitting
?’ |
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| 4. |
bu
- i/-ri
- o |
‘being ?’ |
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| 5. |
pra
- o/pra le he - o |
‘going up
?’ |
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| 6. |
ta
- o |
‘going ?’ |
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| 7. |
to
- co - o |
‘eating
?’ |
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| 8.
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ari
- core - o |
‘being busy
?’ |
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| III |
adi
- tao |
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‘where are
you going?’ |
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adi
le |
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| IV |
(ni)
zhü -o bu - da |
‘wish you
well’ |
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o
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lit. ‘you
be well’ |
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