Conversational Pragmatics Overview

These flashcards cover key concepts related to conversational pragmatics, including properties of utterances, conversational skills, and techniques for maintaining and repairing conversations.

Utterance Properties

Characteristics of utterances including language, length, form, content, and contextual properties like time and place.

Felicity

The appropriateness or suitability of an utterance to its context, which may vary by speaker.

Conversational Pragmatics

The verbal skills needed to initiate, maintain, and repair a conversation.

Discourse

A conversation between two or more participants.

Conversational Turn Taking

The process of alternating who speaks and who listens in a conversation.

Monologue

A one-sided conversation where only one person speaks.

Topic Maintenance

The practice of staying on a topic in a conversation until there's nothing more to say.

Topic Shifting

The gradual transition from one conversational topic to another.

Conversational Repair

Strategies used when a listener does not understand something during conversation.

Clarification Requests

Questions asked by the listener to seek understanding, such as 'What do you mean by…?'.