Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Referring Expression, Relevance Theory, Pragmatics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Talk-in-interaction: the spontaneous speech people join in as they engage in joint activities. Discourses: a set of sentences that cohere about one or more related topics and the term includes not only conversation and narrative but also written texts. Conversational fillers: buy us time like uh um. That are semantically empty but are used to signal planning difficulties. Beneficial to both the speaker and listener because it gives the speaker more time to plan, and listeners more time to anticipate. Pragmatics: refers to the various ways that context contributes to the meaning of a discourse. Common ground: the pool of information that all participants of a conversation share. Speakers don"t just wait for the other speaker to stop talking. The time it takes them to respond shows that the person had already planned what they were going to say and predicted when the other person would stop talking.