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English 18 Public

A review of the rudiments of Chapter 10.

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The branch of linguistics that is concerned with meaning

Semantics

Branch of linguistics that studies the invisible meaning or contextual meaning

Pragmatics

What are the two types of context?

Physical and Linguistic/Co-text

Pointing using language is called _______.

deixis

How many deixis are there in: They'll have to reherse their presentation by themselves today because she isn’t there to oversee them practice.

What are the three types of deixis and what are they for?

personal - pointing to people, temporal - refering to time, spatial - refers to location

In Pragmatics, this process is done by the speaker/ writer using language to enable the listener/ reader identify something

reference

In Pragmatics, this process is done by the listener to create a connection between what is said and what must be meant.

inference

A referencial relationship that uses the antecedent in the sentence first and deixis comes later to refer back to the idea.

anaphora

A referencial relationship that uses deixis in the sentence first and the antecedent comes later.

cataphora

What referential relationship is used in the sentence: She lacks patience, so Mary sat down and left the line.

Cataphora

__________ is what the speaker/writer assumes is true or known by a listener/reader

Presupposition

_________ is one's public self image.

face

_________ is showing awareness and consideration of another person’s face.

politeness

Face saving Act: Will you please pass to me that paper? Correct or Incorrect

Correct

Direct or Indirect speech Act: Why don't you go back to your seats?

Indirect Speech Act