SPHR 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deixis, Cooperative Principle, Implicature

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The study of the way people actually use language in conversation. Utterance: (cid:862)a se(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)e is a(cid:374) a(cid:271)st(cid:396)a(cid:272)t (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept. (cid:863) Something some one utters; the actual production of a sentence. Includes many deictic terms: placeholders: he, there, now which require context in order to know what the sentence means. Deictic elements not the only reason sentences are context dependent. Linguistic context: what preceded a particular utterance in a discourse. Situational context: gives information about the situation in which the utterance is made, allows reference to things in the world even if they were not mentioned in the preceding discourse. Social context: information about the relationships between the people talking and what their roles are: (command, request, sarcasm) Using context to determine whether an utterance is appropriate in any given setting. B: (cid:862)i"(cid:373) a p(cid:396)ofesso(cid:396) i(cid:374) pee(cid:272)h & hea(cid:396)i(cid:374)g. (cid:863) Infelicitous: utterance not appropriate relative to a context. A: (cid:862)what do (cid:455)ou do fo(cid:396) a livi(cid:374)g? (cid:863)

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