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Actions: Verbal Social criticism

Parent Term

  • Verbal

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
  • News
  • 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
  • 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

"A Courtship", 362 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Social criticism
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Ethnicity›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Soul / Spirit