Texture

ACTIVITY 2: Give Me A Response SENSE AND SEQUENCING:

Try to respond to the given utterances
below. Conversation Analysis

of Talk
According to Schegloff and Sacks
(1973), social interaction is often
1 arranged in pairs of utterances—
Thank you so what one person says basically
much! determines what the next person
can say. They call these sequences
of "paired actions" adjacency pairs.

2 Come to my
party tonight! The most important thing about the
two utterances that make up an
adjacency pair is that they have a
relationship of conditional relevance.
Overview
In this lesson we will discussed the
following:
• What is the texture of talk
• Conversational behavior

3 On other words, one utterance is

dependent on (conditioned by) the
• Three kinds of force
• Conversation analysis
Do you like
cats?
other utterance. Texture
Basically comes from two things:
The ways different parts of a text are
For conversation analysts, the related to one another and the

4 conditions that determine how an

utterance should be interpreted
various expectations that people
have about text.
Good morning,
must exist within the conversation
class! Two aspects of
itself.
communication
1. Structure and Patterning
2. Broader expectation s about
PRESENTER: DOMINGUEZ & MOISES the meaning
 Note
Important aspects of pragmatics
For John Austin, the main way
concerns how people accomplish
to know what people are
various social actions when they talk
trying to do with their words is
such as requesting, promising and
Herbert by logically analyzing the
threatening.
Paul conditions under which
Grice JOHN AUSTIN a particular utterance
He pointed out that certain utterances is produced.
when they are spoken, have the effect of
actually performing some action in
He is best known for his theory of
physical world.
implicature and the cooperative principle Example:
(with its namesake Gricean maxims), which Austin called the ability of an
I now utterance to perform an action the
became foundational concepts in the pronounce you I sentence you
linguistic field of pragmatics. husband and to five years in "felicity" (or happiness). And for a
wife prison
speech act to be "happy or felicitious"
4 Main expectations about
conversational behavior certain kinds of conditions must be
met, which Austin called the "felicity
1. That what people say will be true. Speech Act conditions."
2. That what people say will be relevant to
the topic under discussion.
3. That people will try to make what they ACTIVITY 1: Have a Heart! FELICITY CONDITIONS
mean clear and unambiguous
4. The people will says as much as they read To complete the broken heart, find
the correct answer in the other
to say to express their meaning and not say column. must be in a certain conventional way
more that they need to say.
who utters the speech act (the kind of
Example: • Locutionary What the words
authority or identity they have)
actually mean.

A: Does your Dog bite? concern the person or people to

B: No. The actual effect
of the words on whom the utterance is addressed
• Illocutionary listeners
A: (Bends down to stroke it and
gets bitten) Ow! You said your dog time or place the utterance is issued
doesn't bite? The action the
words intended to
B: That isn't my dog. • Perlucutionary perform.