Spoken Discourse

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Spoken Discourse
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Speech Acts

• Locutionary vs. Illocutionary Acts
• Direct vs. Indirect Speech Acts

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Cooperative Principle

• Quantity
• Quality
• Relation
• Manner

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Discourse Markers and Face

• Discourse Markers
• Face-Threatening Acts (FTAs)
• Politics, Strategy, and Status
• Dispreferred Responses (Well.)

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Opening Sequences

• Greeting
• Summons
• Apology

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Turn-Taking

• End-of-Turn Signs
• Pauses
• Adjacency Pairs
• Gesture, Eye Contact, Other Signs
• Violations
• Interruptions and Overlap
• Back-Channeling
• Repairs

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Closing Sequences

• Short Turns
• Reference to Next Meeting
• Recap of Purpose of Conversation
• Parting Expression

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Gender and Conversation
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Style-Shifting andCode-Switching

• A taste of things to come.