JLP315H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pragmatics, Communicative Competence, Joint Attention
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March 7, 2018: knowledge of the social rules for lang use, how to use lang appropriately and strategically in social situations, varies across cultures, purposes vary with intentnional communication, conversation rules/routines: turn-taking, feedback, responding, speech styles: ex. Intentionality: joint attention, early word learning, turn-taking with caregivers, gestures and sounds for early communicative functions. Non-egocentric lang: piaget"s egocentrism: inability to take another person"s knowledge feelings, thoughts, and perceptions into account in language use, ex. Pointing: some are very common in everyday speech, e. g. lunch time ; less conventional. & routinized ones acquired later: preschoolers also adjust production of requests depending on listener, direct request with peer; indirect with adult, judge direct requests with semantic intensifiers as bossier than nicer ones with semantic softeners (becker 1986) Basic rules of conversation (grice 1957, 1975: take turns, preschoolers lack precise timing; rely on obvious cues (ex.
