Pragmatics 5

person deixis form used to point to people me, you

politeness showing awareness of another person´s public self image

positive face the need to be connected to belong to a group

positive politeness showing solidaritet with another

potential presupposition an assumption typically associated with use of a linguistic form the verb regret in the sentence" He regrets that " carries an assumption that he did that

pragmatic accent aspects of talk that indicate what is assumed to be communicated without being said

pragmatic connection a conversational association between a person´s name and a kind of object, for example " Shakespeare " used to identify a book

pragmatics the study of speaker meaning as distinct from word or sentence meaning

pre-announcement utterance before an announcement to check if an announcement can be made, for example Mom, you know what ?

preference a pattern in which one type of utterance will be more typically found in response to another in a conversational sequence an acceptance will more typically follow an invitation than a refusal

preferred the structurally expected next utterance used in a response

pre-invitation utterance before an invitation to check if an invitation can be made

pre-request utterance before a request to check if a request can be made

presupposition something that the speaker assumes to be the case

primary performative an utterance which performs a speech act but which does not contain a performative verb

projection problem the problem of the presupposition of a simple structure not surviving when part of a more complex structure

proximal near speaker this or here

psychological distance speaker´s marking of how close or distant something is preceived to be, that man over there

quality one of the maxims in which the speaker has to be thruthful

quantity maxim the speaker has to be neither more or less informative than is necessary

range of reference all the possible referents identifiable by use of a word

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