Set 1
What is one piece of information you have learned about pragmatics from these week's readings?
Open answer
What is face theory?
Every member of a society has a public self-image, or “face” (Brown and Levinson, 1987). Face is the positive public image people seek to establish in social interaction.
What is speech act and what are speech act sets?
The use of language to perform some acts; Actions performed via utterances.
There is no one way to perform certain speech acts, but multiple strategies to choose from. This set of possibilities creates a Speech Act Set.
What are some reasons why pragmatic failure occurs?
Negative transfer of pragmatic norms Limited grammatical ability in the L2 Overgeneralization of perceived L2 pragmatic norms Resistance to using perceived pragmatic norms
What are contextual factors of communication and why is contextual analysis important?
Contextual factors are social distance, status, intensity of the act / severity of the cause. They affect our language use and define the level of politeness, directness and formality and length of our speech with others.
Define the Cooperative Principles and Maxims of Conversation?
Maxims of conversation are:
Quality
Quantity
Relevance
Manner
Compare locutionary and illocutionary acts
Locutionary act is actual meaning of the message or words. Illocutionary act is what speaker means to convey (intended meaning).
What is Conversational Implicature?
Conversational implicatures are implied by the speaker in making an utterance. They are part of the content of the utterance, but do not contribute to direct utterance content and are not encoded by the linguistic meaning of what has been uttered.