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pragmatics Flashcards

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Proposition

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Statement to which true or false properties can be attached

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Hereby can be used to test…

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whether something is performative

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Declaratives, interrogatives and imperatives all have

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different discourse moves

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Locutionary force

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what was said

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Illocutionary force

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what social action was achieved

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Perlocutionary force

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what higher-order goal was achieved

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Examples of declaratives

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Questions
Offers
Acceptances 
promises
Statements
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Interrogatives

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Statements, requests

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Indirectness can be a problem for who?

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Non native learners

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Abductive inference

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We make the most likely assumption

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Quality Maxim

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Make what you say as true as possible, based on your own knowledge

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Quantity

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Be as informative as is required, and no more

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Relation

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Be relevant to the topic at hand

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Manner

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Be orderly and avoid ambiguity

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Shared knowledge

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An example is having several ways of referring to the same guy eg. gareth southgate or the england manager

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Mutual knowledge

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Both interlocutors have the same understanding of a term/ context

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Examples of how someone might know who I am referring to by saying Gareth

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Community co-membership
Linguistic co-presence
Physical co-presence

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Pronoun interpretation

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We pick out the most salient individual in the preceding discourse when we hear a pronoun

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Deixis

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A word that can’t be fully understood without additional contextual information eg. me, this or here

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Presupposition

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to introduce a property something presupposes it’s existence

21
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‘Again’ and ‘too’ are examples of what?

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Accommodation in relation to presupposition

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