Some examples of non-provocative utterance. (Excepted are those utterances that are not intended for others--a private diary, for example...and utterances that are manifestations of mental disorder, the verbal tics of a Tourettes sufferer, the lunatics who sleep in the alley by the halfway house/free clinic down the street who wake me up every morning with insane ranting--no, scratch that last one. I yell at them to shut up, so their behavior, intentional or not, IS provocative.)
I DO watch a lot of gangster movies and I do sometimes talk to graduate students, but I don't think I'm being naive here--almost all utterance IS communication. And ALL communication is provocative, to varying degrees.
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8 comments:
Answering, "Fine," when someone asks, "How are you?".
Aren't there two senses of the word provocative? One being, "designed to elicit a response, of any kind," and the second being, "calculated to provoke a response of arousal, outrage, or some other particularly strong emotion"? We speak of a provocative dress. Presumably other dresses are not so provocative, though they still might "provoke" some reaction in weaker sense 1. Should poetry always be provocative, in the strongest sense? Yes.
What's the context? I'm not sure what you're after--?
My boyfriend talks to himself a lot. Does that count?
Thank you, Jonathan. That's what I was after. I wasn't reading Jordan correctly.
Interestingly enough, I discussed this with my brother last night, and it almost provoked argument about my character (my brother loves to provoke arguments about my character). That is, he pointed out to me that Jordan must have meant provocative in the stronger sense only, and that I was being persnickety in order to be pedantic. In fact, I simply thought Jordan was missing something...in fact, I was missing what Jonathan (and my brother) pointed out. The point is: I'm just a little dim sometimes.
Charlie,
If your boyfriend is really talking to himself (and not to get attention) then, yes, I'd call that a non-provocative utterance.
I answered "Okay" when someone asked me "How are you?" and had them jump all over me because "I didn't answer as if things were okay." I'm just sayin'.
Steven,
Were you talking to my ex-girlfriend by chance?
No, but it was a female...
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