Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. What is Discourse?
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Conversational Maxims
Cooperative Principle
Quantity
Quality
Relation
Manner
1. Don’t impose
2. Give options
3. Be friendly
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Interactional Sociolinguistics
Possible emphasis on:
Interpreting speaker intentions based on
not only linguistic clues/cues but also non-
linguistic context
“The interactional sociolinguist also tries to
make explicit the presuppositions and
background knowledge that people use to
interpret utterances in context. In doing so
the concept of a schema or frame is often
useful.”
Holmes, Janet. 2008. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 3rd edition. Harlow, England:
Pearson Education, Ltd., pp. 372, 376.
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Conversation Analysis (CA)