Pragmatics

Question 1

pragmatics

Answer 1

study of role other necessary information has in sentence interpretation

Question 2

beliefs and attitudes

Answer 2

non linguistic knowledge used to interpret element in sentence

Question 3

presupposition

Answer 3

assumption or belief implied by use of a particular word

Question 4

setting/deictics

Answer 4

interpretation of words depends on location of speaker/listener

Question 5

deictics

Answer 5

words rely on location

Question 6

discourse

Answer 6

connected series of utterances produced during conversation, lecture, stories

Question 7

basic components of discourse

Answer 7

old information (given)
new information introduced during speech
topic

Question 8

coversation

Answer 8

cooperative principle
maxims

Question 9

cooperative principle

Answer 9

make contributions appropriate to conversation

Question 10

maxims

Answer 10

specific guidelines
relevance
quality
quantity
manner

Question 11

relevance maxims

Answer 11

contributions should be relevant not random

Question 12

quality maxims

Answer 12

contributions should be truthful

Question 13

quantity maxims

Answer 13

only as informative as required

Question 14

manner maxims

Answer 14

unambiguous, clear, logical

Question 15

conversational implicature

Answer 15

making inference about what is meant but not actually said