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Jargon Correct On: Liminal Meanings

"Jointly constructed participant frameworks help to establish whether an utterance is taken as earnest, sarcastic, playful, hostile, and so on, while establishing the target(s) of the utterance".

Social scenes play a part in communicating the earnestness, sarcasm, playfulness, hostility, and so on, of a given expression while implying who the message is for and about.

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