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Principle of relevance:
Every act of ostensive communication
communicates the presumption of its own
optimal relevance.
Sperber and Wilson (1986:158)
Politeness Principle
Leechs (1983) maxims:
Tact maxim
Generosity maxim
Approbation maxim
Modesty maxim
Agreement maxim
Sympathy maxim
1) quality
2) politeness
3) relevance
4) manner
5) quantity
Derivational Thinking (DT)
Linguistic Postulates:
number (use of singular/plural structures)
sex-based gender (with the masculine form as
the root and the feminine derived from the masculine)
[law is a] consensus-coercion
balance maintained by the
authorities
Turk (1966:607)
Variants of Authority-subject Values
Subjects and authorities both act congruently with their
cultural norms
Little/no agreement between the verbal and behaviour of
authorities and subjects and the cultural norms they hold
Sophistication
Knowledge of others, which may be used to manipulate them.
Turk again assumes that authorities have high levels of
sophistication, whereas the levels of subjects may vary.
Other Pragmatic Theories
Conversation Analysis (CA)
Aims:
Prevent physical/verbal conflict
caused by communicative frustration
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