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För övrigt insåg jag att jag borde länka till Linnéas ”Robert Jordan and face strategies”, för det är ett roligt inlägg värt att kika på.

There are some rules about how people in Jordan?s books behave. All people, without exception. Most important of these rules is that if a man is talking to a woman or a woman to a man, the main purpose of the conversation is to score a point of some kind. This is usually also true when women are talking to each other, and occasionally when men converse with each other. However, many men are able to carry on a conversation that is at least reminiscent of something two real people could have. Never, ever so in discourse between people of different genders. Of course there are people like that in real life, but in Jordan?s world it is true of everybody. My theory is that Jordan was overly obsessed with the strategies that sociolinguists refer to as positive and negative face, strategies that people use quite unconsciously to negotiate communications [...] But Jordan?s characters don?t do it unconsciously, they think about the negotiating strategies all the time, the same way we do when we meet people from a very different culture, for instance, or our new boyfriend?s parents, or some other situation where we are very anxious not to offend and to say the right thing.

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