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sabina

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The story Ottenheimer describes, told by blues musician Cousin Joe told about his encounter with a police officer in Mississippi illustrates the idea that
 
  a. we are trapped within our frames.
  b. a speaker can shift the frame of an encounter to accomplish a goal.
  c. frames remain unchanged despite the passage of time.
  d. it is always a mistake to tell a joke to a police officer.

Question 2

Pointing concepts such as UP-DOWN, LEFT-RIGHT, or UPHILL-DOWNHILL, used to name directions in which we might point or find things, are called:
 
  a. deictic concepts.
  b. relative markers.
  c. absolute markers.
  d. egocentric systems.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

b



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