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Catherine Woollard English 4 cards

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  1. 1Presuppositionknowledge which the speaker does not assert but presumes as part of the background of the sentence, knowledge presumed to already be known
  2. 2DeicticsLanguage structures which are used to relate the point of reference to its meaning
    e.g. this, there, today
  3. 3DeixisWords whose reference relies entirely on the circumstances of the utterance
    e.g. that, now, there
  4. 4Performative VerbsVerbs used to produce a sentence which expresses a direct illocution
    e.g. I demand that

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Flashcards on Untitled, created by Catherine Woollard on 02/06/2017.
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