How do we use language?

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Austin (1976)
all utterances have purpose and are therefor speech acts
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Searle (1975)
5 types of speech acts (others suggest 7? is this an issue?)
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Gibbs (1986b)
90% of requests in english are indirect - politeness!
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Searle (1979)
two stage model - direct then indirect
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Keysar (1989)
one stage - process both at same time
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Gibbs (1986a)
non-literal meaning processed just as fast as literal - evidence for one stage
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Grice (1975)
relevance, quantity, quality, manner
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Sperber & Wilson (1986)
suggest most are redundant and can be deduced from relevance
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Garrod & Anderson (1987)
maze game - lexical entrainment
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Brennan & Clark (1986)
conceptual pacts
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Sacks et al (1974)
turn taking = eye gaze and hand gestures - what about phone conversations?
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Wilson & Wilson (2005)
turn taking = synchronisation of endogenous oscillators, synchronised by syllable production rate
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Ferriera et al (2005)
people go out of their way to avoid non-linguistic ambiguity - evidence for audience design
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Ferreira & Dell (2000)
often people do not use the most optimal words, simply what is easiest to say
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Keysar & Henley (2002)
around 50% of the time speakers thought listener had understood when they actually hadn't
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