Lingua Inglese 3 – LLIN12II EXTRA
What is discourse analysis? Study of language beyond the sentence
What is pragmatics? Study of meaning in context
What is semantics? Study of literal meaning
What is a speech act? An action performed through language
Who proposed speech act theory? J. L. Austin
What are the three levels of a speech act? Locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary
What is a locutionary act? The act of saying something
What is an illocutionary act? The intended function
What is a perlocutionary act? The effect on the listener
What is a performative utterance? An utterance that performs an action
Which verb is typically performative? Promise
What is a constative utterance? An utterance describing a state of affairs
What is politeness theory? Theory of social interaction management
Who developed politeness theory? Brown and Levinson
What is face? A person’s public self-image
What is positive face? Desire to be approved
What is negative face? Desire for autonomy
What is a face-threatening act? An act that threatens face
What is mitigation? Reduction of face threat
What is indirectness? Saying something without stating it directly
Why use indirectness? Politeness
What is deixis? Context-dependent reference
What is personal deixis? Reference to speaker/hearer
What is temporal deixis? Reference to time
What is spatial deixis? Reference to place
What is anaphora? Backward reference
What is cataphora? Forward reference
What is cohesion? Formal textual linking
What is coherence? Logical sense of a text
What is a discourse marker? A word linking discourse
Which word is a discourse marker? However
What is conversation analysis? Study of spoken interaction
What is turn-taking? Alternation of speakers
What is adjacency pair? Paired utterances like question–answer
Give an example of adjacency pair Request–acceptance
What is repair? Correction of trouble in talk
What is self-repair? Speaker corrects themselves
What is Grice’s Cooperative Principle? Assumption of cooperation
What are Grice’s maxims? Quantity, Quality, Relation, Manner
What is implicature? Implied meaning
What is conversational implicature? Meaning inferred from context
