LING 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Skills
21 Oct 2017
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Social skills that ensure everyone feels affirmed in a social interaction. Face: essentially our self-esteem in social interactions [solidarity and respect] Bald on-record no effort is made to avoid a [fta] face threatening act: shut up, do the dishes. Positive politeness showing solidarity; appealing to the hearer(cid:859)s positi(cid:448)e face. Indirect request making a request at all but an indirect statement that must be inferred to be a request by the hearer. It would really be nice to have a pen (when wanting h to provide a pen). Face role in virtually all languages and cultures exact shape varies. He argued that most sociological events treated people as puppets. Reproduce what is said (both linguistic details such as pronunciation and non-linguistic details such as breaths. Looks to see how members of a society produce a sense of order. What one person says constrains what can be meaningfully said next.
