Speech acts and conversational maxims
This video lecture is a part of the course 'An Introduction to English Linguistics' at the University of Neuchâtel. This is session 12, in which I discuss speech acts and conversational maxims.
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H.P. Grice on Meaning
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Speech Act Theory -- Locutionary, Illocutionary & Perlocutionary Acts -- Felicity Conditions
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Syntactic phrase structures
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Brown and Levinson's 4 Universal Politeness Strategies
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SEM141 - Speech Acts - An Overview
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The Concept of Language (Noam Chomsky)
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Grice's Cooperative Principle: How to Mean More than You Say
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Pragmatics
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Old English and Middle English
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Speech Act Theory Presentation
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Information structure
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Metaphor and metonymy
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Learning first words
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