Anthropology 2249F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Implicature, Politeness Theory, Indirect Speech

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2249F/G
• Professor: Karen Pennesi

Document Summary

How language is used to do things in the real world. Do things = achieve social or interactional goal. How meaning is created and negotiated between interlocutors. Main four theories in pragmatics: speech act theory. Speech event = sequence of speech acts. Performative utterances cannot be true or false but are instead felicitous. Locution the words uttered by the speaker. Perloclution the effect of the utterance on the hearer. Development of theory all speech is performative. Illocution the force" or intended action of the utterance where saying = doing: the co-operative principle. Make your contribution appropriate for the context of the interaction. Quantity give enough info, not too much or too little. Quality do not lie or say something without evidence. Violation of maxims are not meant to be detected or may not be intentional. Violating the maxims on purpose to create inferred meaning is called flouting. The inferred meaning is called implicature: face theory.