Course Project:Unit 5 :Speech Event Describing and Using English Student: Law Wing (más)

Course Project:Unit 5 :Speech Event Describing and Using English Student: Law Wing Chi Instructor: Prof. Josep Maria Cots Deadline: 19/12/2011 English Studies University of Lleida (menos)

Definition of Speech Event an activity which participants interact through language to achieve (más)

Definition of Speech Event an activity which participants interact through language to achieve some goal E.g. story-telling, buying- selling (menos)

Components of Speech Event “SPEAKING” S- Setting- physical environment psychological state of (más)

Components of Speech Event “SPEAKING” S- Setting- physical environment psychological state of the participants cultural connotation of the physical environment P-Participants & their relationship E-Ends-goals A-Act sequence- Communicative output of the interaction (speech acts, topics, forms) (menos)

Components of Speech Event “SPEAKING” K-Key social attitude of participants approach the (más)

Components of Speech Event “SPEAKING” K-Key social attitude of participants approach the interaction I-Instrument channel, language variety N-Norms interaction G-Genre –textual structures (menos)

Norms of interaction Expectations which are underlying instructions and regularities in mind of (más)

Norms of interaction Expectations which are underlying instructions and regularities in mind of the members of the social group. E.g. prescriptions, aphorisms or laws (menos)

Norms of interpretation social and cultural knowledge linking with specific communicative (más)

Norms of interpretation social and cultural knowledge linking with specific communicative actions. E.g. Hong Kong: USB is called as “Finger” (menos)

Template of a speech event consists of a succession of units with a recognizable combination of (más)

Template of a speech event consists of a succession of units with a recognizable combination of topic or communicative function. “action units” (menos)

Topic management introduction of initial topics at the beginning or a conversation after the (más)

Topic management introduction of initial topics at the beginning or a conversation after the opening exchanges closing a topic in order to open a new one or to start the closing section of the conversation changing to a related topic or to a different one digressing or opening a parenthesis in a topic ending the digression and resuming the old topic. (menos)

Topic management Between the topics words or phrases establishing a topical boundary between the (más)

Topic management Between the topics words or phrases establishing a topical boundary between the previous segment of discourse and the following one comments about the development of the communicative event speed with which speech is delivered the periods of silence or occupied by fillers. (menos)