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Lasc7 - Pragmatics & Discourse 3

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- 1Task (from last week): Identify and label the cohesive devices you can findAndy Murray's mother has been appointed captain of Britain's Fed Cup team. The Lawn Tennis Association has confirmed that Judy Murray will lead Britain in their Europe-Africa Group I match against Israel in Eilat on 1-4 February and mentor other female performance coaches.
Murray, who was Scotland national coach for nine years, trained her son, a three-times grand slam finalist, early in his career and is still a familiar figure at the world No.4's matches – regularly jumping to her feet to shout encouragement from the stands. She also coached her elder son, Jamie, a Wimbledon mixed doubles champion in 2007. - 2Task: Cohesive devices, phorics (e.g.)

- 3Cohesive devices: lexical relations (e.g.), repetition

- 4Cohesive devices: semantic relations (e.g.)

- 5Coherence definitionconnection of text with context, i.e. pragmatic meaning
Yule (2014): the connections that readers and listeners create in their minds to arrive at a meaningful interpretation of texts - 6coherence and cohesion relationCoherence: inferred by hearer/reader, without cohesion (on the textual level)
Her: That's the telephone. Him: I'm in the bath.
Her: O.K. - 7—


- 8Sample conversation - deixis

- 9Sample conversation - phorics

- 10Sample conversation:co-operative principle

- 11Features of spoken conversation pauses, overlaps
hesitation markers, false starts backchannelling
adjacency pairs
turn-taking - 12Modelling spoken conversation turn-taking

- 13Turn-transition places:A: I don't know whether he went or not, do you?
B: No ... I don't know either whether he went or not. - 14Turn-transition places:A: I don't know/ whether he went / or not, / do you?
B: No, / ... / I don't know either / whether he went / or not. - 15Levels of discourse organizationexchange structure
act structure
idea structure
participation framework
information state - 16exchange structure> turn-taking
- 17act structure> sequences of speech acts
- 18idea structure> topic sequences, presuppositions
- 19participation framework> speaker/hearer roles
- 20information state> knowledge management
- 21Spoken conversation – friends chatting (Carter & McCarthy 1997)

- 22Participation framework (Goffman 1981): speaker roles:principal – author – animator
e.g. "The Queen's Speech" (the "State Opening of Parliament") - 23Participation framework:

- 24Classroom discourse

- 25Example (whole class interaction) (Walsh 2011: 6)

- 26diagram context meaning

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- Language in a Social Context (Dalton-Puffer) Flashcards on Lasc7 - Pragmatics & Discourse 3, created by Lisza Neumeier on 10/09/2018.
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