Pragmatics Flashcards
1
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Pragmatics
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Study of implied meanings
2
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Linguistic context
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Context within words and grammar
3
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Physical context
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Objects surrounding the communication as well as place and time
4
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Utterance
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A segment of speech
5
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Schema
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A bundle of knowledge about a concept, person or event
6
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Cooperative principle
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The general principle that people work together to communicate
7
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Conversational (Grice’s) maxims
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Explicit principle that provide a backdrop for a conversation to take place
8
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The Maxim of Quantity
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Do not say too little or too late
9
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The Maxim of Quality
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To speak the truth
10
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The Maxim of Relevance
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Keep what is being said relevant to topic
11
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The Maxim of Manner
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Be clear and avoid ambiguity
12
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Impliciture
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An implied meaning that has to be inferred by a speaker as a result of the maxims being broken
