Pragmatics Flashcards
What is indirect speech
the function of the utterance has to be distinguished from its content
What is the ability to produce indirect speech followed by?
The ablility to understand them
Implicature
what is suggested in an utterance
Presupposition
implications assumed by speaker that listener already knows e.g becky stopped running,pressupposed that you knew she ran
Politeness strategies
Positive politeness to show posface. Negative politeness to show neg face
positive politeness features
shared lexis,colloquial,informal.non-standard
negative politness features
exaggerating own style of lang to create soc distance
what is positive face
our need to be liked by others
what is negative face
our need to be left alone
Context dependant
context must be known to understand
Context independant
context doesnt need to be knowm to understand
Phatic talk
small talk
Grices Maxims
Quantity,relevance,manner,quality
What is quantity maxim 1/4
Give the most helpful amount of info
What is relevance maxim 2/4
what you say needs to be relevant to the context of the convo
