Speech: Theory and Context
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- Created on: 21-08-18 20:31
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- Speech: Context and Theory
- How do speakers interact?
- Competitive or Cooperative?
- Rude/face-threatening (Brown & Levinson)
- Respectful / polite / face-saving
- Topic
- Rarely changes
- Shifts frequently
- Does it topic loop back?
- Someone controls the topic, or shifts topic
- Non-fluency features?
- Filled pauses
- Repetition
- False starts
- Flouts the maxim of manner (Grice)
- Abandoned constructions
- Spontaneous or planned?
- Wholly planned
- Planned to sound spontaneous
- Wholly spontaneous
- Some parts planned, some scripted
- Who is speaking?
- Status
- High
- Low
- Speakers of different or same status?
- Role
- What are the requirements of the role?
- Status
- What is the speaker's agenda? (Synonyms: purpose, motive)
- Do the speakers share an agenda? Or is the agenda conflicting?
- Transactional? Interactional? Promotional?
- Feedback
- Divergence / Negative / Disagreement
- Positive / Agreement
- Do the speakers' styles converge? (Giles' Accommodation Theory)
- Audience
- Multiple audiences?
- Medium/Genre
- What are the conventions?
- Are they respected - or are they subverted?
- What are the conventions?
- How do speakers interact?
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