ANT253H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hey Man, Communicative Competence, Pragmatics
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90 mins, 1st half topic finding, 2nd half how to write. Vehicle for establishing, maintaining, defining, cueing social relations. Communicative competence knowing the subtleties of communication variaety of words/structures/styles, *choices. Dell hymes: variables that shape cc: speaking, setting and scene, participants, ends, act sequence, key (mood/spirit, instrumentalities (eg dialect, norms of interaction, genre. Saying hey man to a friend, hello sir to a prof. Couldn"t read this word in my writing) vs performative utterances. 3 forces: locutionary actual utterance is its iteral emaing, illocutionary indicates the peakers prpose in saying something (promise, order, request, perloctutionary effects/ consequences of the other 2. Representative utterances: what the speaker believes to be the truth of the world the earth is flat . Directives: asking someone to do something can you walk the dog? . Commissive: committing/promising to something i wont let you down . Declaratives: can change course of action you"re fired .
