Actions: Verbal News
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accusatory
- Announcing
- Apology
- Arguing
- Badgering
- Banishment
- Banter / small talk
- Begging
- Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
- Bless
- Bragging
- Calling
- Calling by name
- Chanting
- Chatter
- Code-switching / Change in dialect
- Command
- Complaining
- Confession
- Congratulating
- Consoling
- Conversation
- Cursing
- Daring
- Debating
- Defining
- Demanding
- Denial
- Dialogue
- Disagreeing
- Discussion
- Eloquence
- Esoteric language
- Exaggeration
- Explaining
- Family history
- Flattery
- Flirting
- Garrulousness
- Giving advice
- Gossip
- Haggling
- Honor
- Howling
- Hushing
- Instructing
- Insulting
- Interruption
- Invitation
- Joking
- Listen
- Lying
- Marriage proposal
- Message
- Misspeaking
- Monologue
- Moralizing
- Mumbling
- Naming self
- Negotiation
- Omission
- Ordering
- Persuasion
- Planning
- Praising
- Praying
- Preaching
- Predicting
- Promising
- Provoking
- Punning
- Questioning
- Reading aloud
- Rebel yell
- Refusing
- Renunciation
- Repetition
- Requesting
- Responding
- Reticence
- Revealing
- Rhetorical question
- Rumor
- Screaming
- Self-justifying
- Sharing confidences
- Shouting
- Silence
- Singing
- Social criticism
- Speculation
- Speech
- Stating intent to leave home / run away
- Storytelling
- Stuttering / stammering
- Swearing
- Talking
- Taunt
- Teasing
- Telling
- Thanking
- Threat
- Tirade
- Ultimatum
- Vowing
- Warning
- Whimper
- Whispering
- Wishing
- Withholding
- Writing
- Yelling
Tagged Events
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Crime›Making whisky
Relationships: Familial›Mentorship
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Public›Bridge | Public›Store porch | Time of Day›Sunset | Weather›Flood
Actions: Bodily›Decomposition | Communication›Gossip | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›News
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Frock coat
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Pistol
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Style›Present tense | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Verbal›News
Environment: Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Letter | Verbal›News
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile