ANT253H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Critical Discourse Analysis, Stephen Levinson, Socalled
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For our conversation, it constitutes a pragmatic form of knowledge known as communicative competence: the ability to use language appropriately in specific interactive setting is adaptive. Conversation analysis (ca): to document how people understand and respond to each other in conversations. Speech acts (john l. austin): speaking = a person performs an act (such as stating, predicting, or warning), and the meaning of the act is to be found in what it brings about. Sophia ran into an old friend at the (cid:373)all. Ophia had(cid:374)(cid:859)t see(cid:374) the f(cid:396)ie(cid:374)d i(cid:374) a (cid:449)hile. Ophia a(cid:374)d the f(cid:396)ie(cid:374)d were thrilled: sophia went to the mall a few days ago. In ca, sentences are studied as text-governed forms, that is, as part of the logical structure of the text which includes keeping the flow of the conversation smooth and economical. It(cid:859)s, like, she (cid:374)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)t it, (cid:455)ou k(cid:374)o(cid:449), fillers: allow speaker to gather his/her thoughts b/f proceeding to the next part of an utterance.
