Amagar diapositives
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UNIT 2. SPEECH ACTS DESCRIBING AND USING ENGLISH Patricia O’Connor Sanz
Concept of speech act
Speech act is actions performed through utterances.
Locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts Each utterance has these three kinds of acts (més)
Locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts Each utterance has these three kinds of acts performing simultaneously.
Locutionary act: the action of uttering the words with a specific sense.
Illocutionary act: the intention or the force with which the speaker uttered the words.
Perlocutionary act: the effects/ interpretation on the hearer of the words uttered.
(menys)
An example of speech act 1. A: I don’t remember the last film I saw at cinema…
2. B: What kind (més)
An example of speech act 1. A: I don’t remember the last film I saw at cinema…
2. B: What kind of films are doing now at the cinema?
3. A: I don’t know, could approach to the cinema and see it.
4. B: Ok, if you want we can do it the next weekend.
(menys)
An explanation of the example This example is a speech act; two friends are talking about future (més)
An explanation of the example This example is a speech act; two friends are talking about future plans.
Locutionary act: All of the four utterances that appear in the 4 lines are utterances with specific sense.
Illocutionary act: speaker A express desire, wish (line 1).
Perlocutionary act: speaker B understand the implicit meaning of the utterance(line 2).
In the first line: indirectness.
(menys)
Thank for your attention
Oral presentation of Unit 3: Deixis
Amagar diapositives
Amagar diapositives
DEIXIS
Robert Camí Álvarez
Key aspects
Reference
Pointing things (helps identification)
Key Aspects
Indexicality
Context determines the meaning
Indexicality
Example:
“Here” “Now” (park bench)
?
“Here “Now” (seashore)
Anaphora
Its purpose is avoid repetition of words that have been mentioned before
Anaphora
Example:
The dog catched the bone and bited it
It->anaphoric
Cataphora
Introduces a word that will be used later
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Amagar diapositives
Amagar diapositives
Cristina Boros
Course Project: Lingustic Politeness
Describing and Using English politeness
1.a. politeness, deference, register Polite behaviour - avoid offence and basically respect the (més)
1.a. politeness, deference, register Polite behaviour - avoid offence and basically respect the other people we come in contact with.
Linguistic politeness is not limited to verbal behaviour.
It incorporates the verbal and non-verbal aspects of the language use that help us establish and maintain social relations.
“Etiquette”
(menys)
Deference the respect we show to a person who is socially distant and has a higher status. (més)
Deference the respect we show to a person who is socially distant and has a higher status.
Politeness is not influenced by the social status.
Deferential linguistic behaviour is stricter and usually associated with specific social scenarios.
It requires the use of specific forms of language (“Madam”, “would like to” etc.)
One can be polite without being deferential (using those particular expressions) and vice versa. 1.a. politeness, deference, register (menys)
Deference:
politeness behaviour addressed to a socially distant person
politeness behaviour (més)
Deference:
politeness behaviour addressed to a socially distant person
politeness behaviour addressed to a socially close interlocutor
respect or deference friendliness, camaraderie or solidarity 1.a. politeness, deference, register (menys)
Register
social imposition to use language according to a particular social situation.
E.g. (més)
Register
social imposition to use language according to a particular social situation.
E.g. the language and register used in court trial
Politeness ?the freedom of the speaker to use certain forms. 1.a. politeness, deference, register (menys)
POLITE VERBAL BEHAVIOUR
The sum of a series of verbal/non-verbal strategies that a speaker adopts (més)
POLITE VERBAL BEHAVIOUR
The sum of a series of verbal/non-verbal strategies that a speaker adopts in order to establish and maintain harmonious relations with others.
Act politely or impolitely:
choose between individual goals and social harmony 1.a. politeness, deference, register (menys)
1.b. bases of politeness Psychological and social bases
The role of politeness in social (més)
1.b. bases of politeness Psychological and social bases
The role of politeness in social life
Respected public image
We must know the expectations of our interlocutor.
“face”
a pattern of verbal and non-verbal acts by which a person adopts a certain position towards a social situation and its participants.
Successful decision ? respected social member of the society
(menys)
1.b. bases of politeness Positive face
the desire to be liked, respected and accepted by the (més)
1.b. bases of politeness Positive face
the desire to be liked, respected and accepted by the other people
sacrifice your individual goals and respect the other’s
threatens your own negative face
Negative face:
the desire to be independent, defy imposition in order to fulfil one’s individual goals.
satisfy your wishes by imposing your preferences
threatens the other person’s negative face
(menys)
1.b. bases of politeness
“common sense”: reciprocity in the protection of each other’s faces
by (més)
1.b. bases of politeness
“common sense”: reciprocity in the protection of each other’s faces
by yielding to the other’s wish? social relation based on reciprocity
E.g. “Two friends who have to decide which movie to pick at the cinema. ”
(menys)
1.b. bases of politeness “conversational contract”
All types of everyday life of encounters of (més)
1.b. bases of politeness “conversational contract”
All types of everyday life of encounters of social members are associated with particular conversational contracts
Contract – consists of rights and obligations that participants adopt.
E.g. “a meeting between the boss and the worker”
(the worker knows how to behave in front of his boss, because his boss has the power and he is clearly in inferiority)
(menys)
strategies that speakers use in order to diminish/ avoid a face-threat act of the other. (més)
strategies that speakers use in order to diminish/ avoid a face-threat act of the other.
face-threatening acts – saying/doing something that is contrary to the interlocutor’s expectations
face-saving acts – saying/doing something to distinguish the addressee’s face
To evaluate the degree of face-threat one must take into account three variables:
the social distance
the power
the imposition (the cost)
1.b. bases of politeness (menys)
2. Politeness strategies Face- threatening strategies: most polite least polite
Polite linguistic behaviour is the sum of a series of verbal and non-verbal strategies that a (més)
Polite linguistic behaviour is the sum of a series of verbal and non-verbal strategies that a speaker adopts in order to establish and maintain harmonious relations with the other members of our society.
Sometimes pertaining to a group may be more important than our individualistic goals.
The concept of politeness varies according to the society we live in.
3. CONCLUSIONS (menys)
Thank you !
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Hoffmann,
contes de música i músics
TEATRE SIMFÒNIC
E.T.A. HOFFMANN 1766-1822 Escriptor, jurista, pintor,
cantant i compositor Activista (més)
E.T.A. HOFFMANN 1766-1822 Escriptor, jurista, pintor,
cantant i compositor Activista del moviment romàntic de la
literatura alemanya Referent per a Beethoven entre d'altres Influeix en autors com Edgar Allan Poe Offenbach basa la seva òpera Los cuentos de Hoffmann (1880) (menys)
NO T'HO PERDIS.
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