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Pragmatics Flashcards

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1
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What are Pragmatics?

A

How Context Influences Meaning

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What is a Schema?

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Web of info built up from our experience

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What are Grice’s conversational maxims?

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1- Quality
2-Quantity
3-Relevance
4-Manner

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4
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What is the maxim of quality?

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Speak the truth

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What is the maxim of quantity?

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Dont say too much or too little

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What is the maxim of manner?

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Be clear and avoid ambiguity

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What happens if Grice’s rules are broken?

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Implicature

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What is implicature?

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The hidden, implied meaning

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What is deixis?

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Words whose meanings depend on context
who talking, who they’re talking to, and where they are
(indicate time and place)

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What is person deixis?

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Names and pronouns

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What is spatial deixis?

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Locations
(there, here)

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What is temporal deixis?

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Time phrase
(now, yesterday)

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What is proximal deixis?

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Indicates anything close to the speaker in space or time
(here, this)

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What is distal deixis?

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Indicates anything distant from the speaker in space or time
(that, there)

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When and by who was face theory discovered?

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Goffman 1955

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What is the Face in face theory?

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Your public self-image

17
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What is a positive face?

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A persons desire to be liked and appreciated

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What is a negative face?

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A persons desire to be independent and not imposed upon

19
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What is a face-threatening act?

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An act that threatens someone’s positive or negative face

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What is positive politeness?

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A speaker’s goal is to address the hearer’s positive face by making them feel appreciated and valued

21
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What is negative politeness?

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A speaker who aims to access hearers’ negative face by using indirect language

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