Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
2748 Actions Verbal Self-justifying
2752 Actions Verbal Yelling
2888 Actions Verbal Revealing

Whenever a character accidentally or intentionally reveals an important piece of information. For example, Lucius revealing that Miss Corrie's real name is Everbe to Boon in The Reivers (212).
2991 Actions Verbal Accusatory
3100 Actions Verbal Sharing confidences
3126 Actions Verbal Calling

To cover when a character calls or summons someone else (cf. Dilsey calling Miss Quentin to supper). Could also perhaps be used for when someone uses a telephone to call someone else, though that might be conveyed by other keywords as well. -JBP
3127 Actions Verbal Wishing
3128 Actions Verbal Refusing
3139 Actions Verbal Stating intent to leave home / run away
3152 Actions Verbal Mumbling
3265 Actions Verbal Ordering
3311 Actions Verbal Insulting
3362 Actions Verbal Explaining
3379 Actions Verbal Predicting
3383 Actions Verbal Garrulousness

Created for Gavin Stevens--LW
3390 Actions Verbal Instructing
3415 Actions Verbal Consoling
3424 Actions Verbal Monologue
3449 Actions Verbal Esoteric language
3450 Actions Verbal Chanting
3566 Actions Verbal Punning
3631 Actions Verbal Reading aloud
3643 Actions Verbal Preaching
3673 Actions Verbal Interruption
3676 Actions Verbal Flattery
3706 Actions Verbal Code-switching / Change in dialect
3709 Actions Verbal Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
3982 Actions Verbal Misspeaking
4002 Actions Verbal Stuttering / stammering
4010 Actions Verbal Repetition
4017 Actions Verbal Omission
4060 Actions Verbal Demanding
4082 Actions Verbal Banter / small talk
4083 Actions Verbal Responding
4172 Actions Verbal Reticence
4305 Actions Verbal Message
4308 Actions Verbal Bless
4338 Actions Verbal Daring
4404 Actions Verbal Howling
4405 Actions Verbal Moralizing
4548 Actions Verbal Rhetorical question
4603 Actions Verbal Social criticism
4617 Actions Verbal Flirting
4618 Actions Verbal Praying
4647 Actions Verbal Whimper
4728 Actions Verbal Giving advice
4920 Actions Verbal Badgering
4956 Actions Verbal Renunciation
5087 Actions Verbal Debating
526 Cultural Issues Violence Rape
665 Cultural Issues Violence Domestic
861 Cultural Issues Violence Shooting
1275 Cultural Issues Violence Implied shooting
1291 Cultural Issues Violence Child abuse
1372 Cultural Issues Violence Accident
1518 Cultural Issues Violence Interracial
1588 Cultural Issues Violence Killing animal
1718 Cultural Issues Violence Lynching
2138 Cultural Issues Violence Imagined
2396 Cultural Issues Violence Dueling
2415 Cultural Issues Violence Drunken brawling
2571 Cultural Issues Violence Castration
2652 Cultural Issues Violence Language

To be used in the event that words, spoken or written, are imagined as violent. JC
2933 Cultural Issues Violence Gendered

A violent action in which the gender dynamic plays a salient feature. The specific example is Boon hitting Miss Corrie in The Reivers. JB
3044 Cultural Issues Violence Mistaken for sexual assault
3192 Cultural Issues Violence Ambush
4356 Cultural Issues Violence Torture
4624 Cultural Issues Violence Sexual
4648 Cultural Issues Violence Male-female
4669 Cultural Issues Violence Assault
4788 Cultural Issues Violence Cyclical
4964 Cultural Issues Violence By police
550 Actions Violent Fighting
659 Actions Violent Hitting
672 Actions Violent Entry
799 Actions Violent Animal abuse
819 Actions Violent Murder
943 Actions Violent Vengeance
1079 Actions Violent Domestic violence
1081 Actions Violent Restraining
1248 Actions Violent Assault
1253 Actions Violent Shooting
1400 Actions Violent Suicide
1429 Actions Violent Kidnapping
1430 Actions Violent Dehumanization

Treating a person through one's actions as if they are an object rather than a fellow human being. BR
1436 Actions Violent Lynch mob
1750 Actions Violent Threatening
1834 Actions Violent Animal predatory behavior
1835 Actions Violent Destructive behavior

Should "destructive" be a second-level category for "Actions"? (Violent seems wrong for things like vandalism.) -JBP
1969 Actions Violent Arson
2072 Actions Violent Killing of animals

This was added to refer to violence related to the killing of animals, either by humans or by other animals. (Some overlap, perhaps, with Animal predatory behavior.) -JBP
2482 Actions Violent Whipping
2483 Actions Violent Kicking
2490 Actions Violent Dragging
2715 Actions Violent Killing in war
2740 Actions Violent Raiding
2750 Actions Violent Stabbing
2764 Actions Violent Intimidation
2902 Actions Violent Animal attack on human
2945 Actions Violent Interracial

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