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Indirect Speech Acts

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Indirect Speech Acts. Lenny Shedletsky. Nofsinger. R., Everyday Conversation , Sage, 1991. Getting Meaning Out of A Conversation. I N T E R P R E T A T I O N.

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  1. Indirect Speech Acts Lenny Shedletsky Nofsinger. R., Everyday Conversation, Sage, 1991

  2. Getting Meaning Out of A Conversation I N T E R P R E T A T I O N In talking to one another and deriving meaning from the talk, we rely upon a great deal of information besides the utterance itself. Speakers communicate meanings beyond the literal meanings of their words.

  3. Can we be sure that what the speaker meant is what is understood? No

  4. Meaning is Constructed in a Variety of Ways Propositional or linguistic meaning Speech Act meaning Indirect Meaning

  5. Meaning that Goes Beyond Communicators often fill in or expand on what was said Indirect meaning makes use of situations Hence, context requires our consideration How do we explain how communicators derive indirect meaning?

  6. Conversational Implicature • Conversational Implicature is a theory about how we infer meanings from talk • The speaker’s utterance implies some meaning • The hearer infers the meaning • What is said and what is understood as the meaning may be very far apart • The “surface” speech act and the understood speech act may have an indirect connection--hence, an indirect speech act

  7. Constructing Inferences Grice proposed that we operate on a general principle called the cooperative principle The cooperative principle proposes that we operate as if we are trying to cooperate with our conversational partners We follow maxims or rules to cooperate

  8. Maxims Constitute theThe Cooperative Principle Maxim of strength: Say enough! Maxim of Parsimony: Say no more than is necessary!

  9. Maxim of Truth Do not say anything that you believe to be false (don’t lie)!

  10. Maxim of Evidence Do not say anything for which you lack adequate evidence!

  11. Maxim of Relevance Be relevant!

  12. Maxim of Clarity Avoid language that is unfamiliar to the recipient(s)!

  13. From the Hearer’s Perspective We generally assume that the speaker is trying to cooperate unless we have repeated evidence to the contrary

  14. What Happens When the Speaker Violates a Maxim? The recipient will attempt to interpret the utterance so as to have it meet the requirement of the maxim And, at the same time, the speaker has constructed the utterance with the idea that the hearer can figure out (infer) the intended meaning

  15. Indirect Speech Act This is more than I can eat. It’s huge. Do you like Lobster, John? Thanks. I’m full. Mary John Bill

  16. Context How does the immediately surrounding talk influence the meaning of an utterance? What happens to the lobster offer if we take out part of the utterance?

  17. Indirect Speech Act It’s huge. Yes, it is. Mary John Bill