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Dialogues
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- 1What is a convention?A regularity in behaviuor:
(i) everyone conforms to;
(ii)everyone expects everyone else to conform to;
(iii) that is arbitrary. - 2What are speech acts? And why are they important?Classifications of utterances according to their use. Focus on the use!
- 3Name two important parts of a speech act actconvention and intention
- 4What is discourse?The general term for lanugage beyond sentence level
- 5Describe coherenceRelations between the utterances that make up the discourse. A discourse is coherent if a reader/hearer can find relations between the
utterances that make up the discourse - 6Name two coherence relationsCausal, narration, resemblance, referential
- 7In what form is the discourse structure?A tree
- 8What is beyond lingustic conventions?Intention recognition, for example:
A: So, tell me what you think about Sue.
B: Wow, isn't the weather nice!
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- Flashcards on Dialogues, created by August Edström on 29/10/2018.
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