Pragmatics Flashcards
pragmatics
study of role other necessary information has in sentence interpretation
beliefs and attitudes
non linguistic knowledge used to interpret element in sentence
presupposition
assumption or belief implied by use of a particular word
setting/deictics
interpretation of words depends on location of speaker/listener
deictics
words rely on location
discourse
connected series of utterances produced during conversation, lecture, stories
basic components of discourse
old information (given)
new information introduced during speech
topic
coversation
cooperative principle
maxims
cooperative principle
make contributions appropriate to conversation
maxims
specific guidelines
relevance
quality
quantity
manner
relevance maxims
contributions should be relevant not random
quality maxims
contributions should be truthful
quantity maxims
only as informative as required
manner maxims
unambiguous, clear, logical
conversational implicature
making inference about what is meant but not actually said