Shaggy Dog (group)

 

Practices (Activities) is the building tool that is most relevant to Shaggy Dog Stories because one must have some practice with these types of stories in order to understand their patterns.

After reading Shaggy Dog Stories, the question that we established as a group is: What kinds of knowledge does someone need to understand Shaggy Dog Stories? We think the questions on page 60 that would help analyze this would be: What social languages are involved? What sorts of grammatical patterns are involved? Are different languages mixed? How so?

Additionally, the kinds of categories and codes that would be relevant to answering those questions would include the following. The coding aspect would be understanding/knowledge of Shaggy Dog Stories. For example, the feature would be one will have to understand that the grammar in these stories are not always grammatically correct. Also, the pattern would include the following: always has a pun at the end, has many homonyms, miniature story with a plot, funny, and uses intertextuality to build a punch line. Last, the theory that we would propose to explain these patterns is social language is involved because this type of pattern is accepted with these types of stories.