Key Terms for English Language

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A-Level English Literature and language Mapa Mental sobre Key Terms for English Language, creado por sophie terry el 10/03/2017.
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Key Terms for English Language
  1. Impoliteness: The act of directly threatening face.
    1. Intended to avoid giving offence by showing deference.
      1. I.e. Questioning, hedging + presenting disagreements (opinions)
    2. Politeness strategies: Distinctive ways in which speakers can choose to speak to avoid threatening face.
      1. Expresses concern + minimises threats to self-esteem / "face". Intended to avoid giving offense by highlighting friendliness.
        1. I.e. Juxtaposing criticisms with compliments, establishing common ground, jokes, nicknames, tag questions & discourse markers (please)
      2. Conversational Maxims: Explicit principles that provides a backdrop for conversation to take place so speakers can easily understand each other.
        1. Maxim of quantity: One tries to be as informative as possible + give as much information as needed.
          1. Maxim of quality: One tries to be as truthful + does not give information that is false / not supported by evidence.
            1. Maxim of relation: One tries to be relevant + say things pertinent to the discussion.
              1. Maxim of manner: one tries to be as clear, as brief + as orderly as they can in what one says. Avoid ambiguity & obscurity.
              2. Felicity conditions: The conditions needed for a speech act to achieve its purpose. I.e. Authority of the speaker & the situation of the speaker.
                1. An essential condition: Whether the speech act is being performed seriously & sincerely. (Promise)
                  1. A sincerity condition: Whether the speaker intends that an utterance be acted upon by the addressee. (Go jump off a bridge)
                    1. A preparatory condition: Whether the authority of the speaker and the circumstances of the speech act are appropriate to its being performed successfully.
                    2. Speech Acts: Forms and functions associated with particular utterances + types of speech.
                      1. I.e. Suggestions, apologies, threats, compliments, invitations, advice & warnings.
                        1. Locutionary act: Utterance itself.
                          1. Expressives: Speech which expresses the feelings / attitudes towards the proposition.
                            1. Assertives: Speech which commits the speaker to the truth of what they're saying.
                              1. Directives: Speech which triggers the reader to take action. I.e. requests.
                                1. Declaratives: Speech that makes a pronouncement that changes the reality of the situation. I.e. 'I now pronounce you man & wife.'
                                2. Perlocutionary act: The actual effect of the utterance on the hearer.
                                  1. Illocutionary act: The significance & pragmatic force of the utterance.
                                    1. Declaratives: Assertations / statements.
                                      1. Imperatives: commands.
                                        1. Interrogatives: Questions / requests.
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