Sunday, May 3, 2009

Context is everything

This video from a Lawrence Welk show points out how important the milieu is for understanding the intent of a communicative act (like a song). These singers do not understand the words they're singing, but they *think* they understand them: "One Toke Over the Line, Sweet Jesus" is a "modern spiritual" according to mc Myron Floren.

Found because Andrew Taylor showed it to me on BoingBoing.
Enjoy!

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