Clause characteristics
A clause that cannot stand alone
What is a dependent clause?
A relationship of equality between clauses
What is linking?
A relationship in which one clause reiterates another clause in different words, gives an example or adds more details
What is elaboration?
The communicative purpose of an utterance
What is illocutionary force (or an illocutionary act)?
Something that a speaker assumes to be the case prior to speaking, triggered by a specific word or phrase.
What is a presupposition?
A clause marked for time and/or person
What is a finite clause?
A relationship of inequality between clauses
What is binding?
What is extension?
The guy who identified five types of speech acts according to their communicative purpose
Who is Searle?
Something that logically follows from what's asserted in an utterance.
What is an entailment?
A type of clause that includes infinitives and participles
What is a non-finite clause?
Information found at the beginning of a sentence
What is shared (or assumed) information?
A relationship in which one clause gives circumstantial information about another clause.
What is enhancement?
A speech act used to get someone else to do something.
What is a directive?
The four rules guiding the interpretation of conversational implicatures.
What are the maxims?
A clause acting as subject, object or complement of another clause
What is an embedded clause?
Information found at the end of a sentence
What is newsworthy information?
A type of enhancement exemplified by "Malema performed 'Kill the Boer' in order to rally his base."
What is purpose?
A speech act in which the structural form and communicative function do not match.
What is an indirect speech act?
A type of presupposition exemplified by "We regret telling him."
What is a factive presupposition?
A clause which is the object of a verb of saying, thinking or feeling
What is a projected clause?
What is a matrix clause?
A type of enhancement exemplified by "Unless the stark inequalities areameliorated, racial tensions will continue."
What is negative condition?
A speech act used to make words change the world.
What is a declaration?
A type of presupposition exemplified by "They started complaining."
What is a lexical presupposition?