Linguitics Study is Fun

The far as this semester goes, the more I think studying linguistics is fun.

I do think the video "He said, she said" is interesting. Actually, I think Dr. Tannen's speech is more like a book, a book on linguistics but delivered to the audience/reader in a lively and humorous way. Conversation style is a topic about what happens in our real life. Those patterns do not sound too far from us, however, as for the deep side, we just do not know if we don't look into it closely. One thing I was wondering is if what Tannen focuses on is something about sociolinguistic.

The chapter on semantic is not boring to read as well. Most of hose terms are not new to me, but I enjoyed reading those examples that listed in the book. There are something new in the section, for example, I did not know modalities can be divided into epistemic and deomtic ones, even though I knew those are modalities. I feel kind of anxious to know what I will discover in the rest of the book and in the rest of the semester.