Unit 4 : Language Of Communication Flashcards
What is grice’s cooperative principal (summarise)
Make your contribution such as required, at the stage at which is occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction or the talk exchange in which you are engaged
What does the term redundancy mean
Redundancy allows for a better understanding of the message. Allows listener to anticipate what comes next, helps overcome noise. They can assume from the words that they heard what the speaker meant.
What does pragmatic incompetence mean
Thee inibility to understand underlying meaning. Things are taken literally
What does the term pragmatics mean
What is said vs what is meant
Name grice’s 4 maxims
Quantity, quality, manner, and relation
What is grice’s maxim of quantity
Not too much. Make your contribution as informative as required without too much or too little detail
What is the maxim of quality
Do not say what you believe to be false
What is the maxim of manner
Make sense. Be brief, orderly and concise.
What is the maxim of relation
Be relevant.
Which maxim is this sentence violating/flouting
“Hey how are you”
“Fine”
Maxim of quantity
Is this a violation or a flout of which maxim
“Are you going to sleep”
“No I’m going to Mars”
What is the purpose of the second utterance
This is a flout of quality, is an example of sarcasm. Intended to either make the receiver realise it was a dumb question. Purpose flout.
What does it mean to violate a maxim
Accidental social/pragmatic incompetence. No unspoken meaning intended. Not following the cooperative principal
What does it mean to flout a maxim
Results in an implicature. Speaker knows that hearer will recognise problem. A deliberate action.
Name 5 features of conversation
- normal non-fluency
- fluidity of topic
- topic not pre determined
- number of participants small
- informal talk
- overlapping discourse
- turn taking generally short
What does normal non-fluency mean
Many errors, false starts and stutters made
