ANT253H1 Final: ANT253FinalNotes
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Use ctrl/cmd + f + chapter in order to locate the chapter notes. Grice: maxims: maxims- used to study conversational pragmatics, anything spoken in the convo is relevant (whether true/not, convo is not strictly gov. by linguistic competence but also communicative competence. Dell hymes: communicative competence, showed that the ability to use language appropriately interactively was adaptive task, need in communicative and linguistic knowledge in order to carry out a convo. Conversational analysis (ca: study b/w language use and social variables, how ppl understand and respond to each other in convo, similar to speech acts. Speech acts- john austin: suggested that when speaking a person performs an act and that act is what brings about the convo. Speech acts and ca share a lot in common. Ca shows that a convo illuminates the social rules/patterns/class and also shapes the changes in formal language.