Lecture 2 PPT on Communication theory 2

Summary and things you need to know about this lecture.

Topic What do you need to know? Reading materials

Communication theory: 1. 8 signals which help us to have
Ritual constraints
Brown and Yule,
effective communication with Discourse analysis
others. If you know the culture,
tradition and social status and
the ways of addressing elders,
young people or officials in the
language you are studying you
will likely succeed in building up
good relations with people by
having successful conversation.

- Opening/closing,backchannel,
turnover, acoustically adequate
and interpretable messages,
bracket, preempt and non-
participant
- Compare American or English
with the ways how Mongolians
use the above 8 signals.

2. 4 Gricean norms or maxims

- Relevance
- Clarity
- Truthfulness
- Quantity
The norms/maxims which are suggested
by scholar Grice are additional things
which also help you to be successful in
communicating with others.

Lecture 3 PPT on Script

Summary and things you need to know about this lecture.

Topic What do you need to know? Reading materials

Communication theory: 1. Script has a goal,
Script actors, props, and
actions.
Actors are all people
who are involved in
accomplishing our goal.
Props/ properties/ are
things which also help us
to accomplish our goals.
Actions are movements
and action we do in
order to achieve our
goal.

Knowing SCRIPT will help

students to learn
vocabulary in a
systematic way.