Speech acts
By who the Speech Act is introduced?
J. L. Austin
Who was the H. P. Grice?
Philosopher
What are the two types of information speaker may presuppose?
Shared and Non-shared
What is the difference between Particular and Non-particular reference?
Particular reference is realized via definite referring expressions, non-particular reference is realized via indefinite expressions
What does the word "temporal" means?
Temporal comes from the latin word "temporalis" which means "of time"
Which type of Speech Act is this ? “The Earth revolves around the Sun."
Assertive
What does the Maxim of Quantity require ?
Be as informative as required. (=Don’t give more information than is required )
What is the role of Presupposition Triggers?
To help the adressee to interpret the meaning of the sentence
What is Non-conventional reference?
Non-conventional reference is situational reference when the referring expression is successful only in the situation.
... is a deictic reference to some social characteristic of referent apart from any relative ranking of referents
relational social deixis
An action performed through language
Speech act
Which Maxim is related to how something is being said in the conversation?
Maxim of Manner
What is expressed by the verbs as return, repeat, restore adverbial phrases again, another time, once more, any more etc ?
The Repetition
When does Coreference occur?
Conference occurs when multiple expressions in a sentence or document refer to the same entity.
Which type of Deixis has a function of identifying the entity (concrete or abstract) within a situation created by the text?
Discourse Deixis
What are the three levels of Speech Acts made by Austin?
1. Locutionary 2. Illocutionary 3. Perlocutionary
Which Maxim requires conversational behavior with respect to the relevance of information provided at each turn of a conversation?
Maxim of Relation
How the copula is preceded in the Cleft clauses?
The copula is preceded by "it" and followed by a noun phrase and relative clause.
What is inference?
The term inference refers to the process of using observation and background knowledge to determine a conclusion that makes sense.
What is the reason for claiming that certain sentence adverbs, such as "therefore" and "furthermore", include an element of discourse deixis in their meaning?
They require the recovery of a piece of previous discourse to be understood
What is the difference between Direct and Indirect Speech Acts?
Direct Speech Acts are used for the clear command, while, Indirect acts for polite request
...... implicature includes words like but, even, therefore, yet, actually, also, anyway.
Conventional implicature
Into which categories presuppositions are divided?
Existencial, Factive and Non-factive
Which term means reference to the set as a whole?
Non-distributive
What may consist of a single sentence (e.g. a notice on the board) which does not require an explicit response by the adressee?
Text !