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)