Pragmatics

Question 1

what is pragmatics

Answer 1

the study of speaker’s meaning considering context

Use of language

Question 2

Direct Speech Acts

Answer 2

Speech acts that perform their functions in a direct and literal manner

Q: did minnie marry mickey?
R: Take out the garbage!

Question 3

Indirect Speech Acts

Answer 3

Speech acts that aren’t interpreted literally

Q: Do you know if minnie married mickey?
R: could you take out the garbage?

Question 4

Form vs. Function

Answer 4

Eat the food!
Form: imperative
Function: Command

Did you eat the food
Form: interrogative
Function: question or request

You are the food.
Form: declarative
Function: statement

Question 5

Cooperative Principle

Answer 5

make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged

Question 6

Quantity

Answer 6

make you contribution as informative as required

don’t make your contribution more informative than is required

Question 7

Quality

Answer 7

try to make your contribution one that is true

do not say what you believe to be false

do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence

Question 8

Relation/Relavance

Answer 8

Be relevant

Question 9

Manner

Answer 9

avoid obscurity of expression, avoid ambiguity, be orderly