Discourse, Pragmatics & Conversational Strategies

What this note covers

1. The Cooperative Principle and Grice's Maxims
2. Face Theory and Politeness Strategies
3. Speech Acts
4. Turn-Taking, Adjacency Pairs, and Conversational Structure
5. Conversational Openings, Closings, and Discourse Structure
6. Deixis, Implicature, and Inference
7. Prosody, Connected Speech, and Pragmatic Meaning in Spoken Discourse

7 sections · 14 key terms & formulas · 7 common mistakes