English Language Theories

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B&L (Positive Face)
A need to be liked and accepted
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B&L (Negative Face)
Our right to not be imposed on
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B&L (Positive Politeness)
Emphasise solidarity
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B&L (Negative Politeness)
Emphasise respect when there is a social distance between the speakers
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Fairclough (Power in discourse/Power behind discourse)
In discourse: actual language used - Behind discourse: context of the language and the effect in context
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Austin and Searle (Presupposition)
What is already known or assumed
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Austin and Searle (Interance)
What the listener/reader understands or suggests
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Austin and Searle (Implicature)
What the speaker is implying or suggesting
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Grice's Maxims (Quantity)
Saying more or less than we would expect
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Grice's Maxims (Quality)
Saying something that isn't true, or they don't necassarily mean
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Grice's Maxims (Manner)
Someone talks differently to what they usually do. What do we infer from this?
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Grice's Maxims (Relation)
If someone changes the subject. What do we infer?
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Zimmerman and West
Men interupt more. Sample of white men under 57 years yet Beattie said it was too small of a sample
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Deborah Tannen
Women listen more and are more cooperative. Women more sympathetic than men
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Jennifer Coats
Girls smaller groups. Boys larger groups. Theory challenged by Buckingham who said that this wasn't the case.
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O'Barr and Atkins
Said that language differences are situational. Studied in court room for thirty months.
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Peter Trudgil
Accents and dialects. Women more likely to use overt prestige. Women conformed to this ideology
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Labov (Overt Prestige)
Used by speakers of a culturally dominant group. I.E Received Pronunciation
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Labov (Covert Prestige)
Non-mainstream accents. Involves dumming down a more RP accent to 'fit in'
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Card 2

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Our right to not be imposed on

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B&L (Negative Face)

Card 3

Front

Emphasise solidarity

Back

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Card 4

Front

Emphasise respect when there is a social distance between the speakers

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

In discourse: actual language used - Behind discourse: context of the language and the effect in context

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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jade

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Its Coates not Coats :/

jade

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Its Trudgill not trudgil too
Sorry :/

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