ANT253H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Communicative Competence, Conversation Analysis, Cataphora
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Communicative competence the ability to use a language appropriately in specific interactive settings (i. e. you have to be socially competent and know how to speak with people) To be able to speak with people you need to have both linguistic and communicative competence. Speech acts the idea that whenever somebody speaks they put on an act (ex. stating, predicting, warning) and the meaning of the act is to be found in what words it brings about. Conversation analysis involves studying conversations to see how participants understand and respond to one another (if there is strong communicative competence between them and if they are following the implicit rules of socializing) One thing discovered by ca: language has evolved to make certain devices available that allow people to talk to each in a flowed fashion. Example: sophia went to the mall a few days ago. Sophia ran into an old friend at the mall. Sophia hadn"t seen the friend in a whole.
