Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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5183 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Denim | |
5257 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Disordered | |
5321 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Shirtless | |
5408 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Aviation clothes | |
5587 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | And age | |
5634 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Raincoat | |
537 | Relationships | Commercial | Customer relations | |
540 | Relationships | Commercial | Employer-employee | |
700 | Relationships | Commercial | Rivalry | |
973 | Relationships | Commercial | Landlord-tenant | |
1857 | Relationships | Commercial | Business partners | |
2238 | Relationships | Commercial | Boss-underling | |
3944 | Relationships | Commercial | Doctor-patient | |
1146 | Actions | Communication | Newspaper article | |
1415 | Actions | Communication | Telephone | |
1494 | Actions | Communication | Letter | |
1502 | Actions | Communication | Messenger |
Whenever someone comes to deliver a message verbally in person. |
1570 | Actions | Communication | Without words |
When someone communicates by means of something other than words (written or spoken); for example, the envelope full of money Boyd wants Ike to give his mistress, or the verbena that Drusilla leaves on Bayard's pillow. |
1900 | Actions | Communication | Writing | |
2175 | Actions | Communication | Newspaper columns and notices |
For references to items in newspapers that aren't exactly news articles - "agony advice columns," for instance (in "Miss Zilpha Gant"), or obituaries, or similar items. JBP |
2350 | Actions | Communication | Telegraph | |
2425 | Actions | Communication | By sound | |
2426 | Actions | Communication | Swearing | |
2428 | Actions | Communication | Unsent message | |
2823 | Actions | Communication | Gossip |
The original definition here was "informal oral networks", which was too technical, but perhaps more accurate. In essence, gossip here is a means for the whole community to become aware of news. JB |
2891 | Actions | Communication | Post card | |
2942 | Actions | Communication | Car horn | |
3175 | Actions | Communication | Graffiti | |
3212 | Actions | Communication | Transcribing | |
3288 | Actions | Communication | Marriage announcement | |
3370 | Actions | Communication | Addressing for mail delivery | |
3406 | Actions | Communication | Sending mail | |
4047 | Actions | Communication | Pen and ink well | |
4173 | Actions | Communication | Non-human |
To capture when an animal "talks" - for example, when the narrator of "Race at Morning" says the lead dog Eagle "said, 'There he goes'" when he saw the deer. Here the narrator translates the dog's baying into words, but that isn't necessary with this term. It's for when communication occurs between species, probably always between an animal and a person. SR |
4213 | Actions | Communication | Censorship | |
4291 | Actions | Communication | And deafness | |
4301 | Actions | Communication | Spanish | |
4315 | Actions | Communication | Listening | |
4375 | Actions | Communication | Lack of communication |
To be used generally for any instance in which information is suppressed or not passed between individuals. This can apply to individuals sharing the same space or to communication across longer distances. JC |
4425 | Actions | Communication | Silence | |
4467 | Actions | Communication | Receiving mail | |
4587 | Actions | Communication | Engrave | |
4592 | Actions | Communication | Speaking | |
4631 | Actions | Communication | Joking | |
4663 | Actions | Communication | Miscommunication | |
5126 | Actions | Communication | Note | |
5455 | Actions | Communication | Language barriers | |
539 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Tradition | |
626 | Themes and Motifs | Community | African-American | |
676 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Social life | |
1596 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Crowd | |
1666 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Wedding | |
1920 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Secrecy | |
2083 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Posse | |
2331 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Alienation | |
2429 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Preserving order | |
2724 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Carnival | |
3382 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Local legends |
I created this term in response to the local legend of Melisandre Backus Harriss that Chick inherits in "Knight's Gambit."--LW |
3407 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Parade | |
3411 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Decoration Day | |
3437 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Populace | |
3546 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Opinion | |
3598 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Conformity | |
3703 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Columbus Day | |
4136 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Knowledge | |
4424 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Stranger |
I'm thinking of the times when someone enters a community who is unknown and the collective community has suspicions about this character. A clear example would be Lena Grove. (jj) |
4652 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Ordinary | |
4748 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Taboos | |
4783 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Upliftment |
Whenever a member of the community takes it upon him or herself to "uplift" the rest of the members of the community, whether they want to be uplifted or not. The specific example is John Sartoris in The Unvanquished who has grand plans for the people of Jefferson (223). |
4856 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Cooperation | |
5446 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Supportive | |
5595 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Gathering | |
592 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Theft|Robbery | |
596 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Forgery | |
722 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Bootlegging | |
750 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Murder | |
940 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Breaking and entering | |
968 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Making whisky | |
969 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Manslaughter | |
990 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Penalty for | |
1424 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Vigilantism |
This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR |
1746 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Gambling | |
1747 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Vagrancy | |
1909 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Fratricide | |
2001 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Waistcoat | |
2335 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Looting | |
2544 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Cattle rustling | |
2545 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Commercial sexual exploitation |
Undoubtedly the more common term searched will be "prostitution". The aim of this term is to identify the crime being actively committed by the pimps and bordello madams. JB |
2584 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Bribe |
Any payoff to law enforcement or other institution to circumvent the strictures of the law. In The Reivers Lucius Priest refers to this as "blackmail" (112). This is meant ironically. JB |
2959 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Extortion | |
2986 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Prostitution | |
2987 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Drug addiction | |
3063 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Kidnapping | |
3101 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Blackmail | |
3795 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Embezzlement | |
3838 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Prevention | |
3934 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Moonshining | |
4578 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Horse theft | |
4593 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Car theft | |
4594 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Grave robbing |