PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Paul Grice, Aphasia, Pragmatics

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

Any language user needs to know (and obey) a rich set of rules about how (and whether) elements can be combined. Rely on a further set of principles whenever they perceive and understand linguistic inputs. Depends on syntax, semantics, prosody, extralinguistic context. Factors guide your understanding of the sentences you hear or see. Still understate the complexity of language use. Use of language depends on your assumptions about how people communicate with each other. Assumptions involve the pragmatics of language use. A term referring to knowledge of how language is ordinarily used. Paul grice describes the conversational rules that speakers follow and listeners count on. The maxim of relation speakers should say things that are relevant to the conversation. Assumption of relevance dog must have stolen the meat. Maxim of quantity a speaker shouldn"t be more informative than is necessary. Listeners count on speakers to be cooperative and collaborative, speakers proceed knowing that listeners make these assumptions.