Discourse Analysis

Commutative Competence

Four aspects of a speaker's communicative competence

Four components of Communicative Competence

Genre

Topic

Context

Discourse Norms across Cultures

Cultural Contact

Multiculturalism

Four Dimensions of National Culture

Communication Differences in South African Cultures:
1. when to talk

Communication Differences in South African Cultures:
2. Pacing and Pausing

Communication Differences in South African Cultures:
3. listenership

Communication Differences in South African Cultures:
4. Paralinguistic features - stress, amplitude and tone

Speech Act Theory:
Austins theory of performatives

Felicity Conditions

Three acts performed at once in making an utterance (Austins claim)

Searle's theoretical adjustments

Searle's 5 rules of promising

Searle's 5 classes of speech acts

Indirect speech acts

Grice's cooperative Principle

Conventional Implicature

Conversational Implicature

Adjacency Pairs

Features of AP

Reciprocal AP

Non-reciprocal AP

Preferred and dispreferred second pair-parts

Features of a dispreferred response

Pre-sequences

Collapsed Sequences

Remember:

Openings

Story - Telling

Story Prefaces

Types of Stories:
1. Narrative

Types of Stories:
2. Anecdote

Types of Stories:
3. Exemplum

Types of Stories:
4. Recount

Discourse Markers

Closing a conversation

When do closings happen?

How to close a conversation

Sequence types which can be used to move briefly out of the closing

Compliments and Compliment Responses

Compliments as supportive actions

Compliments as assessment actions

Self-praise avoidance

Solution types (ways in which speakers deal with compliment responses):
1. Evaluation shift

Solution types (ways in which speakers deal with compliment responses):
2. Referent shifts

Solution types (ways in which speakers deal with compliment responses):
3. Opting out or flouting

Topic (2)

Four Dimensions of National Culture
(2)

Speech Act Theory:
Austin's theory of performatives
(2)

Sequence types which can be used to move briefly out of the closing
(2)

Solution types (ways in which speakers deal with compliment responses):
2. Referent shifts
(2)

Story Prefaces
(2)