ALDS 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Illocutionary Act, Conversation Analysis, Relevance Theory

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies
• Course: ALDS 2201
• Professor: Jaffer Sheyholislami

Document Summary

Orality often (mis)related to primitive , native or fundamental communication, especially in early anthropological work, often as a contrast to more sophisticated literacy. Yet both are complex phenomena, each embedded to some degree in the other. Negative views of orality: it has been suggested there are some negative aspects of orality as a technical term in that it is, insufficient, negative, obsolescent, phonocentric, logocentric, uniformitarian. Personal voice: we know that everyone is identifiable partly by how they sound, both generally or in a moment. Voices can be: raspy, nasal, deep, high-pitched, monotonal, excited, whispery, resonant, breathy, loud, soft, screechy, lispy, clear, etc. Accent: dialects which vary in how words are pronounced are said to manifest an accent or different voice recognizable as regionally or socially or culturally connected to a specific group. o (cid:1) (cid:1) Gestures signals kinesics proxemics body movements laughter tears (cid:1)