LING 100 Lecture 10: LING 2/27-3/6

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: kozma

Document Summary

Linguistic context: the discourse that precedes the phrase or sentence to be interpreted. Situational context: virtually everything nonlinguistic in the environment. A sentence is roughly a string of words. An utterance is a particular use of a sentence in a given context. Semantics deals with sentences, pragmatics deals with utterances. Using implicatures we save time and effort by not verbalizing everything we intend to mean. Quality: be truthful, do not say something for which you lack adequate evidence. Implicates that b does not know exactly where in savoy. B: i saw our son looking in the fridge before he went out. Quantity: don"t convey more or less information than is required and appropriate. Manner: avoid obscurity of expression, avoid ambiguity, be brief, be orderly. Flouts and violations: implicatures may arise from assuming that someone is following grice"s maxims, or from observing that someone is deliberately flouting one. ex) sarcasm. Flout is a violation that is blatantly obvious.