Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Language Delay, Pragmatics, Psych

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

Document Summary

Talk-in interaction the spontaneous speech people use as they engage in joint activities: main function of language. Incomplete and ill-formed utterances are the norm in spontaneous conversation: as a result, we often experience processing delays during which we buy time with conversational fillers. Ill-formed utterances in conversation also result from planning errors. Most of the meaning of a conversation resides not in the semantics of the individual words but rather in the pragmatics of the situation in which the conversation takes place. Pragmatics refers to the various ways that context contributes to the meaning of a discourse. Common ground 0 the pool of information that all participants of a conversation share. Turn constructional units syntactic structures ranging from a single word to a sentence that can make up a turn in a conversation. Transition relevance place a point in the conversation where the listener can expect the current speaker to end a turn.