Chapter 5 Flashcards
What are utterances?
Complete units of speech in spoken language.
Define the term pragmatics.
The distinction between what a speaker’s word literally mean, and the speaker’s intended meaning.
What is the speech act theory?
Theory proposing that speaker use language to perform specific actions.
Define locution.
Non-ambiguous (literal) meaning of an utterance.
Define illocution.
The speech act that is performed by an utterance.
What is the theory of conversational implicature?
Grice’s theory argues that people are able to understand each other and communicate effectively because they follow various ‘rules’ of conversation.
Define the cooperative principle.
The principle that people follow a set of rules that enable communication to function effectively.
What is the matched guise technique?
A technique used to measure attitudes about a speaker based on the speaker’s language use.
What is the linguistic expectancy bias?
Interpersonal version of the linguistic intergroup bias, whereby people describe expected behaviors abstractly and unexpected behaviors concretely.
What are co-verbal behaviors?
Nonverbal behaviors that accompany speech and convey information to a receiver.
Define display rules.
Cultural rules governing the appropriateness of expressing emotions in particular contexts.
Define emblems.
Gestures that replace or substitute for verbal communication.
Define motivational impairment.
The ironic tendency for the motivation to hide deceit to make concealing deceit less effective.
What is back channel communication?
Cues that let the speaker know that a person is listening.
Define Conversation Analysis (CA).
The study of talk in interactions, which attempts to describe the structure and patterns of conversation.
