PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Locutionary Act, Illocutionary Act, Communicative Competence
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Linguistic competence: ability to produce and understand well-formed, meaningful sentences. Communicative competence: ability to use those sentences appropriately in communicative interaction. Each sentence a speaker utters is a speech act: speech act: utterance as behaviour; the notion that talking is doing things with words . Its intended function (its illuctionary force: ex. Its effect on the listener (its perlocution: ex. Intentionality specify: intentionality: the characteristic of having a purpose or goal (in speaking, forms and effects the intentions that underlie communication are the most difficult to. Form-function mappings and the role of context. One speaker talks at length like in a lecture, sermon, or a narrative: communicative competence includes knowing how to participate in conversations and how to produce monologues such as narratives, basic rules to conversation: Registers: registers: styles of language use associated with particular social settings. Pragmatic development: development of the use of language to serve communicative functions.
