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1
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What is indirect speech

A

the function of the utterance has to be distinguished from its content

2
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What is the ability to produce indirect speech followed by?

A

The ablility to understand them

3
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Implicature

A

what is suggested in an utterance

4
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Presupposition

A

implications assumed by speaker that listener already knows e.g becky stopped running,pressupposed that you knew she ran

5
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Politeness strategies

A

Positive politeness to show posface. Negative politeness to show neg face

6
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positive politeness features

A

shared lexis,colloquial,informal.non-standard

7
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negative politness features

A

exaggerating own style of lang to create soc distance

8
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what is positive face

A

our need to be liked by others

9
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what is negative face

A

our need to be left alone

10
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Context dependant

A

context must be known to understand

11
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Context independant

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context doesnt need to be knowm to understand

12
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Phatic talk

A

small talk

13
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Grices Maxims

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Quantity,relevance,manner,quality

14
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What is quantity maxim 1/4

A

Give the most helpful amount of info

15
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What is relevance maxim 2/4

A

what you say needs to be relevant to the context of the convo

16
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What is manner maxim 3/4

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Should avoid ambiguity,obscurity and be orderly in utterance

17
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What is quality maxim 4/4

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should be truthful and not say anything you suspect to be false

18
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What does it mean to flout/violate a maxim

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Speaker is not adhearing to the ideal principles of co-operative convo