Course Project“UNIT 2: Speech acts” Describing and Using English Professor: Josep Maria (more)

Course Project“UNIT 2: Speech acts” Describing and Using English Professor: Josep Maria Cots Name: Montse Martinez Semino University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

Index What we understand by Communicative function? What are Speech acts? In what consists (more)

Index What we understand by Communicative function? What are Speech acts? In what consists communicative intent? What is the difference between Speech act and Communicative function? The three aspects within Speech acts. Indirectness Conclusion 2 University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

1. What we understand by Communicative function? Paying attention to the form that you use to (more)

1. What we understand by Communicative function? Paying attention to the form that you use to communicate your message and be sure that the other person would understand in the same way you expected it to be understood. 3 University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

2. What are Speech acts? Utterances are the words that we use to create the message. 4 (more)

2. What are Speech acts? Utterances are the words that we use to create the message. 4 University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

3. In what consists Communicative intent? Two points of view: Grammatical aspects. Force (more)

3. In what consists Communicative intent? Two points of view: Grammatical aspects. Force aspects ?Communicative Intent deal with this. 5 University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

4. What is the difference between Speech act and Communicative function?  Speech act ? The (more)

4. What is the difference between Speech act and Communicative function?  Speech act ? The utterance that we use to say something . Communicative function ? The feeling or intention that we want to express. 6 University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

5. The three aspects within Speech acts. Locutionary ? The simply words that we use to (more)

5. The three aspects within Speech acts. Locutionary ? The simply words that we use to create the utterance. Illocutionary ? The intention that the speaker wants to communicate. Perlocutionary ? The interpretation that provokes in the hearer. 7 University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

6. Indirectness Meaning ? The use of words to mean something different to the literal meaning of (more)

6. Indirectness Meaning ? The use of words to mean something different to the literal meaning of an utterance. Direct Speech Acts? Must be intended by the basis of literal meaning. Indirect Speech Acts ? Must be intended by the basis of non-literal meaning. 8 University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

Five different types of (more)

Five different types of indirectness: Declaratives Representatives Expressive Directives Commissives 1 9 University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

7. Conclusion As a conclusion we can say that as you can see Speech acts are most present in our (more)

7. Conclusion As a conclusion we can say that as you can see Speech acts are most present in our lives of what we thought, because we do this unconsciously. 10 University of Lleida- Arts Faculty- Describing and Using English (less)

CONTEXT IS KING! What is context? There are four subareas involved: (more)

CONTEXT IS KING! What is context? There are four subareas involved: Physical Epistemic Linguistic Social (less)

D E I X I S From the Greek word: Means, to point at or refer to... Deictic center Ex: I’m (more)

D E I X I S From the Greek word: Means, to point at or refer to... Deictic center Ex: I’m standing here now That guy is awesome (less)

POLITENESS Student: Meritxell Gatius Valls Professor: Josep Maria Cots Subject: Descripció i Ús (more)

POLITENESS Student: Meritxell Gatius Valls Professor: Josep Maria Cots Subject: Descripció i Ús de l’Anglès (less)

POLITE BEHAVIOUR The concept of politeness it is not just a verbal behaviour, it involves actions (more)

POLITE BEHAVIOUR The concept of politeness it is not just a verbal behaviour, it involves actions that we undertake while speaking with others. Not all cultures have the same concept of politeness. We are social members and we set up our profile with social actions, both verbal and non-verbal. (less)

DEFERENCE VS. POLITENESS To defer is to yield to someone's opinions or wishes out of respect for (more)

DEFERENCE VS. POLITENESS To defer is to yield to someone's opinions or wishes out of respect for that person, sometimes with a higher status or distant to us. In order to be deferent, we use some kind of fixed expressions and particular forms of language. (i.e. Sir, Madam). Politeness does not necessary involve the adoption of particular expressions. (less)

SOCIAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL BASES Important role in social life. Politeness serves to both reflect and (more)

SOCIAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL BASES Important role in social life. Politeness serves to both reflect and regulate social distance. Face refers to the respect that an individual has for him or herself, and maintaining “self-esteem” in public or private situations. (less)

CONCEPT OF FACE Positive face: desire to be accepted, liked and respected. Negative face: (more)

CONCEPT OF FACE Positive face: desire to be accepted, liked and respected. Negative face: need to be independent and not imposed. (less)

CONCEPT OF FACE Face-threatening act ? challenge the face wants of an interlocutor. Face-saving (more)

CONCEPT OF FACE Face-threatening act ? challenge the face wants of an interlocutor. Face-saving act ? we avoid loss of dignity or prestige, trying to minimize the face-threat of the act. (less)

POLITENESS STRATEGIES Negative politeness strategies? minimizing the imposition, apologizing or (more)

POLITENESS STRATEGIES Negative politeness strategies? minimizing the imposition, apologizing or making a justification. Positive politeness strategies? taking care of the addressee’s interests, being optimistic or maximizing value of imposition and consequent indebtedness. (less)

Language: instrument used to refer to people or things. Why do we use the language? To make (more)

Language: instrument used to refer to people or things. Why do we use the language? To make reference to people things We have to specify what we are talking about DEIXIS (less)

Make ourselves understood when comunicating. We can find two situations: - The interlocutor (more)

Make ourselves understood when comunicating. We can find two situations: - The interlocutor whom I am speaking to hasn't got the same knowledge of the world than me. - The interlocutor whom I am speaking to has almost the same knowledge than me. DEIXIS (less)

Verbal tense: its interpretation depends on the temporal context. Every tense used in an (more)

Verbal tense: its interpretation depends on the temporal context. Every tense used in an utterance depends on the location of the speaker. Anaphora: the necessary reference has been made beforehand so that it can be understood by the addressee. DEICTIC VS. NON-DEICTIC USAGE (less)

DEICTIC USAGE Gestural usage: it is only possible under physical circumstances. Symbolic (more)

DEICTIC USAGE Gestural usage: it is only possible under physical circumstances. Symbolic usage: it is only possible under spatial and temporal circumstances. (less)

Person deixis: used with personal pronouns and possessives. Place deixis: used with (more)

Person deixis: used with personal pronouns and possessives. Place deixis: used with demonstratives this/that/these/those and with adverbs here/there. Time deixis: used with adverbs and adjectives. TYPES OF DEIXIS (less)