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Pragmatics » Focus and Content

Pragmatics


Focus & Content

Definition
Basic Notions

Deixis and Distance
Person Deixis
Spatial Deixis
Temporal Deixis

Reference and Inference
Referential and Attributive Uses
Names and Referents
The Role of Co-Text

Cooperation and Implicature
The Cooperative Principle
Hedges
Conversational Implicature and Entailment

Speech Acts and Events
John Austin
Felicity Conditions
The Performative Hypothesis
Types of Speech Acts
Direct and Indirect Speech Acts
Speech Events

Politeness and Interaction
Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson's Politeness Theory
Factors of Politeness Strategies
Face Threatening Acts (FTA)

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