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Speech Acts Flashcards

1
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What do norms govern?

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Interactions

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What do Sociopragmatics govern?

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Who is entitled/required to perform what speech act in a particular situation

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What do Pragmalinguistics govern?

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The appropriate words to say, tone to use & body language

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4
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What is a speech act?

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An utterance conceived as an act which the speaker does something / Performative utterance

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5
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What does Austin state?

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All utterances = actions

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What are the Felicity Conditions for speech act to achieve its purpose?

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1) Propositional (requires participants to understand language): receiver understands requested act
2) Preparatory (authority of speaker & circumstance of speech act are appropriate to it being performed successfully): sender has right to tell receiver to do action
3) Sincerity (Speech act being performed seriously & sincerely): sender believes action should be done
4) Essential (where the speaker intends that an utterance be acted upon by addressee): receiver has obligation to do action

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7
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What do we look at when analysing speech acts?

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1) Locution (what was said)
2) Illocution (what was done)
3) Perlocution (what happened as a result)

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What are the Types of Locution?

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1) Declarative: make statement / express opinion
2) Closed-interrogative: ask close-ended qn
3) Open-interrogative: asks open-ended qn
4) Imperative: give command / make request
5) Exclamative: Express great emotions

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What are the Types of Illocution?

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1) Assertive: Commit speaker to truths of expressed proposition
2) Directives: Cause hearer to take a particular action
3) Commissive: Commit speaker to future action
4) Expressive: Express speaker’s attitudes & emotions towards proposition
5) Declaration: Change reality in accord with the proposition of declaration

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What are Adjacency Pairs (AP)?

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Composed of 2 utterances by 2 speakers, one after another

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What is a FPP?

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Speaking of 1st utterance

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12
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What is an SPP?

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Responding utterance provoked

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13
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What does Turn-taking consist of?

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1) Transition-relevant point (TRP)
2) Turn construction unit (TCU)
3) Overlap

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What is a TRP?

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Speaker finishes TCU & allows listener to have a turn at speaking

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What is a TCU?

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A unit of convo that completes communicative act

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16
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What is Overlap?

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Listener can interrupt someone’s turn without offending current speaker

17
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What does Topic Management consist of?

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1) Topic Maintenance
2) Topic Shift
3) Topic Introduction
4) Supertopic

18
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What is Topic Maintenance?

A

Interlocutors keep to current topic

19
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What is Topic Shift?

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Moving from current to new topic

20
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What is Topic Intro?

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Proposing & establishing an initial topic

21
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What is Supertopic?

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An overarching topic that has many sub-topics

22
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What are the Types of Expansions?

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1) Pre-expansion
2) Insert-expansion
3) Post-expansion

23
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What is a Pre-expansion?

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AP preliminary to main course of action

24
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What is an Insert-expansion?

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AP that comes between FPP & SPP base

25
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What is a Post-expansion?

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AP that comes after but still tied to base pair

26
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What are the Types of Politeness Maxims?

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1) Tact: speaker minimise cost to listener
2) Generosity: speaker minimise benefit to self
3) Approvation: speaker minimise dispraise to listener
4) Modesty: speaker minmise praise to self
5) Agreement: speaker minimise disagreement between self & listener
6) Sympathy: speaker minimise antipathy between self & listener

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What is Preference Organisation?

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Structural preferences of convo for some types of actions over others

28
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What does PO consist of?

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1) Unmarked turn shape = preferred response

2) Marked turn shape = dispreferred response

29
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What is Opening a convo?

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Phatic communion to create & maintain social r/s

30
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What is Ending a convo?

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depends on who

31
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What is Convo Repair?

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Revising/repairing message so that there will be higher chance of successful communication

32
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What are the types of convo repair?

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1) Self-initated

2) Other-initiating

33
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What are 3 part interchanges?

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Occurs after 1st speaker adds additional response to 2nd speaker’s response

34
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What are the functions of 3PI?

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1) Topic bounding
2) Comprehension
3) Recognition of Accountability
4) Evaluative

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