Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
5016 Cultural Issues Clothes Riding
643 Cultural Issues Clothes Rural poverty
579 Cultural Issues Clothes Shabby
1645 Cultural Issues Clothes Shawl
2630 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirt
5321 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirtless
3080 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirtsleeves
1190 Cultural Issues Clothes Shoes
2435 Cultural Issues Clothes Silk
4145 Cultural Issues Clothes Skirt
2885 Cultural Issues Clothes Socks
4023 Cultural Issues Clothes Spectacles
731 Cultural Issues Clothes Sports
4319 Cultural Issues Clothes Stockings
4022 Cultural Issues Clothes Store clothes
2097 Cultural Issues Clothes Suit
1034 Cultural Issues Clothes Sunday clothes
1047 Cultural Issues Clothes Sunday shoes
4929 Cultural Issues Clothes Tartan
4203 Cultural Issues Clothes Tennis shoes
2443 Cultural Issues Clothes Tie
2316 Cultural Issues Clothes Trousseau
1375 Cultural Issues Clothes Underclothes, female
1374 Cultural Issues Clothes Underclothes, male
555 Cultural Issues Clothes Undressing
891 Cultural Issues Clothes Uniform
4869 Cultural Issues Clothes Urban
1670 Cultural Issues Clothes Veil
1744 Cultural Issues Clothes Vest
5156 Cultural Issues Clothes Watch chain
1899 Cultural Issues Clothes Wedding dress
4149 Cultural Issues Clothes Wet clothes
621 Cultural Issues Clothes Women
3572 Cultural Issues Clothes Work clothes
4845 Cultural Issues Clothes Yankee uniform
2238 Relationships Commercial Boss-underling
1857 Relationships Commercial Business partners
537 Relationships Commercial Customer relations
3944 Relationships Commercial Doctor-patient
540 Relationships Commercial Employer-employee
973 Relationships Commercial Landlord-tenant
700 Relationships Commercial Rivalry
3370 Actions Communication Addressing for mail delivery
4291 Actions Communication And deafness
2425 Actions Communication By sound
2942 Actions Communication Car horn
4213 Actions Communication Censorship
4587 Actions Communication Engrave
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
3175 Actions Communication Graffiti
4631 Actions Communication Joking
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
5455 Actions Communication Language barriers
1494 Actions Communication Letter
4315 Actions Communication Listening
3288 Actions Communication Marriage announcement
1502 Actions Communication Messenger

Whenever someone comes to deliver a message verbally in person.
4663 Actions Communication Miscommunication
1146 Actions Communication Newspaper article
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
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
5126 Actions Communication Note
4047 Actions Communication Pen and ink well
2891 Actions Communication Post card
4467 Actions Communication Receiving mail
3406 Actions Communication Sending mail
4425 Actions Communication Silence
4301 Actions Communication Spanish
4592 Actions Communication Speaking
2426 Actions Communication Swearing
2350 Actions Communication Telegraph
1415 Actions Communication Telephone
3212 Actions Communication Transcribing
2428 Actions Communication Unsent message
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
626 Themes and Motifs Community African-American
2331 Themes and Motifs Community Alienation
2724 Themes and Motifs Community Carnival
3703 Themes and Motifs Community Columbus Day
3598 Themes and Motifs Community Conformity
4856 Themes and Motifs Community Cooperation
1596 Themes and Motifs Community Crowd
3411 Themes and Motifs Community Decoration Day
5595 Themes and Motifs Community Gathering
4136 Themes and Motifs Community Knowledge
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
3546 Themes and Motifs Community Opinion
4652 Themes and Motifs Community Ordinary
3407 Themes and Motifs Community Parade
3437 Themes and Motifs Community Populace
2083 Themes and Motifs Community Posse
2429 Themes and Motifs Community Preserving order
1920 Themes and Motifs Community Secrecy
676 Themes and Motifs Community Social life
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)
5446 Themes and Motifs Community Supportive
4748 Themes and Motifs Community Taboos
539 Themes and Motifs Community Tradition
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).

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