Main concepts Pragmatics: establish relationships between context and language use The speech (más)

Main concepts Pragmatics: establish relationships between context and language use The speech event: is the circumstances that embrace the oral expression Components: [SPEAKING] Setting (time and place), Participants, Ends (purposes), Acts (speech acts and topics), Key (tone), Instruments (channel and language variety), Norms (norms of interactions and norms of interpretation) and Genre (culturally recognized patterns) (menos)

Micro analysis: to extract a structure. It analyzes the speech acts sequence, the strategies for (más)

Micro analysis: to extract a structure. It analyzes the speech acts sequence, the strategies for the topics management: (introducing a topic, closing a topic, changing a topic, opening and closing a digression) and verbal and non verbal resources (brief boundary tokens, meta-comments, variation in tempo, pauses and fillers) With the structure we define templates. One attempt to classify the templates is through the analysis of genres (narrative, descriptive, expository and argumentative). Macro: how the templates are adapted to different social, cultural and historical circumstances (menos)

Analysis of a conversation It’s been selected the conversation between Alice and the Cheshire-Cat (más)

Analysis of a conversation It’s been selected the conversation between Alice and the Cheshire-Cat of the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Purposes: to focus on the speech acts and the topics, in order to analyze the structure. Conclusions: the conversation doesn’t follow a conventional template. (menos)

Closed class of particles that depend on context for their full interpretation. They are (más)

Closed class of particles that depend on context for their full interpretation. They are classified according to the type of referents they point at: Person: Look at him Place: This is my new house Time: See you tomorrow Deictics (menos)

Cannot be interpreted in context. Ex: anaphora. My father is going to the cinema. He wants to (más)

Cannot be interpreted in context. Ex: anaphora. My father is going to the cinema. He wants to watch an action film. Non-deictics (menos)

What is a speech event? Situation in which the action of speaking takes place. -Speech is (más)

What is a speech event? Situation in which the action of speaking takes place. -Speech is essential Purpose: communicate uttering words (verbal) but also gestures (non-verbal) (menos)

Aspects Verbal: we need speech Physical: we need to locate the speech event (más)

Aspects Verbal: we need speech Physical: we need to locate the speech event somewhere Psychological: we need to know who is involved in the speech event by means of the characteristics that a participant has Socio-cultural: things, values, beliefs that people share in a specific place (menos)

Macro-analytical: general facts about the culture and history of a place Micro-analytical: little (más)

Macro-analytical: general facts about the culture and history of a place Micro-analytical: little language details in the communicative situation (menos)

Components Setting: place and time in which the speech act occurs Participants: the people who (más)

Components Setting: place and time in which the speech act occurs Participants: the people who are involved in the speech event Ends: the aims of these participants (menos)

Acts: the things we say but also how we say them (style of our speech: formal or informal) Key: (más)

Acts: the things we say but also how we say them (style of our speech: formal or informal) Key: the attitude that the participants have Instrument: the channel that the participants use Norms: rules that indicate how people behave and why. (menos)

Norms of interaction: rules that you should know to be accepted by a society Norms of (más)

Norms of interaction: rules that you should know to be accepted by a society Norms of interpretation: rules you must be aware of in order to understand the way people behave. (Information about the culture of a particular society) Genre: the type of event we are involved in: story, joke, lecture… (menos)

Structure Speech events have a particular structure depending on the different situations: (más)

Structure Speech events have a particular structure depending on the different situations: Templates or scripts Rhetorical genres: Narrative (introduction-problem-solution-moral) Descriptive (physical traits-psychological traits) Expository (steps) Argumentative (pros-cons-opinion) (menos)

Topic The topic is the message you send to your interlocutor. It is the theme you talk about in (más)

Topic The topic is the message you send to your interlocutor. It is the theme you talk about in the speech event and the way you manage to expose it (topic management) Topic framework: the general idea of the topic. It helps you to understand the topic (menos)

Strategies Meta-comments (I’d like to talk about, this is all I have to say) Tokens or (más)

Strategies Meta-comments (I’d like to talk about, this is all I have to say) Tokens or expressions (right, by the way, ok, so, anyway) Tempo: speed of your speech Fillers (mhm, uhm) (menos)

Outline Pragmatics in general Four angles of investigation Definition of awareness Language (más)

Outline Pragmatics in general Four angles of investigation Definition of awareness Language learning (menos)

Pragmatics In General Pragmatics as a science The main goal of pragmatics Why is it hard to study (más)

Pragmatics In General Pragmatics as a science The main goal of pragmatics Why is it hard to study pragmatics (menos)

Four Angles Of Investigation Context and language choices Manipulation Processes, strategies and (más)

Four Angles Of Investigation Context and language choices Manipulation Processes, strategies and principles Mental work (menos)

Learning language Native language: skills/texts? intuitions ? insights? metacognitions Foreign (más)

Learning language Native language: skills/texts? intuitions ? insights? metacognitions Foreign language: metacognitions? insights? intuitions? skills/texts (menos)