Pragmatics

Question 1

Pragmatics

Answer 1

Pragmatics refers to the study of langaueg through the filter of a social context

Question 2

Indirectness

Answer 2

In disciplines that include conversation analysis, communication studies, and speech-act theory, indirectness is a way of conveying a message through hints, insinuations, questions, gestures, or circumlocutions.

Question 3

Face

Answer 3

An important concept in the linguistic study of interaction is that of ‘face’. The study of face — or ‘facework’ — is related to our everyday concept of respect and politeness, familiar from expressions such as ‘to save face’ or ‘to suffer a loss of face’.

Question 4

Maxims

Answer 4

Maxim, proverb, gnome, aphorism, apothegm, sententia ―all of these terms mean essentially the same thing: a short, easily remembered expression of a basic principle, general truth or rule of conduct.

Question 5

Flouting

Answer 5

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives.

Question 6

Cooperative principle

Answer 6

In conversation analysis, the cooperative principle is the assumption that participants in a conversation normally attempt to be informative, truthful, relevant, and clear.

Question 7

Politeness Strategies

Answer 7

In sociolinguistics and conversation analysis, politeness strategies are speech acts that express concern for others and minimize threats to self-esteem in particular social contexts.

Question 8

Face-threatening Act

Answer 8

A face threatening act is an act that inherently damages the face of the addressee or the speaker by acting in opposition to the wants and desires of the other.

Question 9

Implicature

Answer 9

An implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed.