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1 Week 12 Analyzing discourse

2 Q: What does the example 2 mean? (p.364)

3 Q: What does pragmatics entail? (p.365)

4 Q: Explain Grice’s four conversational maxims (p. 365)
Q: Explain Grice’s four conversational maxims (p.365). Do we always follow the maxims? If not, provide examples (p.366)

5 Q: Do the maxims apply in all cultures. If not, provide examples (p

6 Q: Discuss Lakoff’s three rules of politeness
Q: Discuss Lakoff’s three rules of politeness. Which one expresses the positive/negative politeness? (p.367)

7 Q: Identify patterns of minimal feedback or back-channelling in your culture.

8 Q: Discuss criticism over western bias in politeness in Asian cultures (see Example 11, p.369)

9 Q: Compare Example 12 and 13 with your culture (p.370)

10 Q: Discuss Hymes’s framework for the analysis of communicative events (see Example 16, p.373)

11 Q: Why do we need the “ethnography of speaking” approach? (p.375)

12 Q: Discuss advantages and disadvantages of an insider/outsider’s evaluation of discourse (pp )

13 Q: Do we need to include turn-taking behavior, hesitations, pauses, and paralinguistic behavior in the conversation analysis? (see Example 19, p.379)

14 Q: Discuss “contextualization cues” (p.380) and the examples (p.381)

15 Q: Read Examples 24 and discuss the misinterpretation of contextualization cues (p.382). Any more examples?

16 Q: Do you think schemas or frames are culture-bound? (see Example 25, p.382)

17 Q: Exercise 14: Identify possible adjacency pairs (p.384)

18 Q: Discuss signals that a dispreferred response is coming next in Example 29 (p.385)

19 Q: Read Example 37 and discuss interruptions and overlaps in your culture (p.391)


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