2. Discourse analysis, Pragmatics, Politeness Theory, week 5
Section outline
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Semantic vs pragmatic meaning. Implicature, presupposition, entailment, Cooperative principle, maxims. Politeness Theory.
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(read pp. 16-21 Speech Acts, optional)
read Section 2.4 (pp. 21-24 The Cooperative Principle) and Section 2.6 (pp.28-34 Politeness Theory)