PSYCH320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sarcasm, Hyperbole, Implicature

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH320
• Professor: Katherine White

Document Summary

Conversations support speech and vocabulary development: having (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:396)satio(cid:374)s(cid:863) (cid:449)ith (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies leads to faste(cid:396) (cid:448)o(cid:272)al de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Helps infants understand that meanings are shared. Shows them how language is used to communicate. Contingency means parents will say words in situations where it is easier to map to referents. Responsive parents adapt to current skill level of infants. Sociolinguistics: learning how to communicate like a member of your language community. Sometimes you cannot predict the intended meaning from the individual words or their combination. We often go beyond the literal meaning: make inferences. We usually speak to each other in cooperative ways. He described rules of conduct for conversations (not prescriptive: a description of how people typically behave. Cooperative principle (cp): people usually try to cooperate in communication. We usually follow these maxims: qua(cid:374)tit(cid:455): do(cid:374)"t p(cid:396)o(cid:448)ide too (cid:373)u(cid:272)h o(cid:396) too little i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374, quality: make your contribution true, relation: be relevant.