Frames, Scripts, Implicature, Explicature, Metaphor & Irony

Question 1

What are Frames?

Answer 1

Episodical event / activity mediated by language

Question 2

What are Scripts?

Answer 2

An action seq/protocol mediated by language & performed within frame

Question 3

Where are Scripts acquired from?

Answer 3

Daily interaction with people

Question 4

What is the Social Script Theory?

Answer 4

The human mind is like a computer using scrips to perform actions in specific frames

Question 5

What is a Metaphor?

Answer 5

Something (source domain) in terms of another (target domain)

Question 6

What is a Verbal Irony?

Answer 6

Use of Surface Meaning to convey a different Underlying meaning

Question 7

What is Grice’s Co-operative Principle?

Answer 7

Make your conversational contribution such as is required at the stage at which it occurs b the accepted purpose/direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged

Question 8

What are the 4 conversational maxims?

Answer 8

1) Quality (don’t lie or say what you have no basis for): right INFO
2) Quantity (don’t give too much or too little info): right AMOUNT of info
3) Relation (don’t give irrelevant info): right PURPOSE / KIND of info
4) Manner (say things briefly, unambiguously, clearly): right STYLE

Question 9

Why do people flout these maxims?

Answer 9

1) Impolite to tell truth straight
2) Reveals speaker’s inventiveness & sense of humour
3) Strengthen r/s with banter

Question 10

What do these maxims depend on?

Answer 10

1) Mode of Communication
2) Tenor of r/s between interlocutors
3) Field/subject matter