Pragmatics 4

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  • face threatening act utterance or action which threatens a person´s public self-image
  • face wants a person´s expectations that their public self-image will be respected
  • high involvement style An active fast-placed overlapping way of taking part in a conversation
  • conversational implicature an additional unstated meaning that has to be assumed in order to maintain the cooperative principle, The president is a mouse something that is literary false the hearer must assume the speaker means to convey more than is being said
  • interlanguage pragmatics the study of how non-native speakers communicate in a second language
  • interpersonal function the use of language for maintaining social roles and taking part in social interaction
  • lexical presupposition each time you say someone manage to do something the asserted meaning is that the person succeeded in some way.
  • insertion sequence a two part sequence that comes between the first and the second parts of another sequence in conversation
  • local management system a metaphor for describing the conventions for organizing the right to speak in a conversation
  • locutionary act the basic art of uttering a meaningful linguistic form
  • manner one of the maxims, in which the speaker is to be clear, brief and orderly
  • negative face the need to be independent, not imposed on by others
  • negative politeness strategy an attempt to demonstrate awareness of another´s right not to be imposed on
  • non-factive presupposition the assumption that certain information as presented is not true
  • on record utterance directly addressed to another, directly asking for something, lend me your pen
  • overlap more than one speaker talking at the same time in conversation
  • particularized conversational implicature an additional unstated meaning that depends on special or local knowledge
  • performative hypothesis a proposal that underlying every utterance there is a clause with a verb that identifies the speech act
  • performative verb a verb that explicitly names the speech act
  • prelocutionary effect someone utter a sentence for example I have just made you coffee on the assumption that the hearer till recognize the effect you intended for example to get the hearer to drink coffee

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