Organisation of Conversation Flashcards
1
Q
What are the different kinds of politness?
A
Negative Poiteness:
- Doesn’t want to intrude (I value your freedom)
- Apologising before asking question
- “Would you mind”
Positive Politeness:
- Shows interst in other person (I like you)
- Compliments
- “how are you”
2
Q
What are the 2 Speech Act Analysis?
A
Distributional Analysis
- features that occur in coversation
- E.g. oh, well, erm (hesitation marker)
- These are discourse markes -> relate to previous part of conversation
Sequential analysis:
- sequence of the differnt parts when we speak
- E.g. greeting, doctor-patient interactions etc.
3
Q
What are TRPs and TCUs?
A
Turn constructional units (TCU):
- what we say
Transistion Relevance Places (TRP)
- basically an oppurtunity for the other person to speak
- After TCUs
- Marked by snytax and intonational closure
Overlaps:
- Speaker self selects TRPs, but speaker keeps tallking
- Not Interuptions!
- Supportive function
4
Q
What are Adjacency Pairs?
A
First utterance requires a second utterance
- question - answer, request - offer, greetings - greetings
- some second pairs are more prefferred (invitation - acceptance)
- occur close together, can have insertion inbetween
- preferred immediatly, dispreferred often hesitation markers or pauses
5
Q
What are the 4 different types of repairs?
A
Self-iniated and self-repaired:
- Customer: Ehm, I would like to buy a ticket to the -, to Amsterdam, please?
- Clerk: Do you want a single or a return?
Other iniated and self-repaired:
- Alex: I don‘t to have dinner at that restaurant.
- Sue: What?
- Alex: I said I don‘t want to go to that restaurant.
Self-iniated and other-repaired
- Alex: And here you have the- what‘s it called the
- Sue: the carburetor?
- Alex: Yes, the carburetor
Other iniated and other-repaired:
- Alex: That lake over there is the largest of the country. Isn‘t it great?
- Sue: It is, but it‘s not the largest of the country.
