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| The set of circumstances in which an utterance is uttered |
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| Principle formulated by the philosopher H. P. Grice, stating that underlying a conversation is the understanding that what one says is intended to contribute to the purposes of the conversation |
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| A kind of sentence that makes a claim or an assertion, that is, expresses a proposition |
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| Word or expression that takes its meaning relative to the time, place, and speaker of the utterance |
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| Utterance that performs its function in a direct and literal manner |
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| Describes an utterance that is appropriate for the context in which it is uttered |
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| The circumstances required to render a particular variety of speech acts felicitous |
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| To break one of the Gricean maxims intentionally in order to convey a particular message that is often counter to or seemingly unrelated to what is actually said |
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| One of a set of conversational rules that regulate conversation by enforcing compliance with the Cooperative Principle |
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| A kind of sentence that expresses a command. In English, _____ sentences begin with a bare verb stem and do not have an explicitly named subject |
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| An idea that is communicated indirectly (either through language or otherwise) but that is not entailed |
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| An idea that is communicated based on the way that language is used and on what spakers know about language use rather than on what is directly entailed |
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| Utterance that performs its function in an indirect and nonliteral manner |
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| Describes an utterance that is not appropriate for the context in which it is uttered. Infelicity can result from a violation of one of the Gricean maxims, from the lack of fulfillment of some felicity condition, from an unsatisfied presupposition, or from some other source. An infelicitous utterance is marked with a pound sign |
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| A conclusion that is drawn from an implication or an implicature |
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| A kind of sentence that expresses a question. In English, interrogative sentences have an auxiliary verb that precedes the subject |
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| The linguistic environment in which an utterance is uttered: specifically, the discourse that has immediately preceded the utterance in question |
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| A verb that denotes a linguistic action. A verb that is used to perform the act that it names |
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| A speech act that employs a performative verb |
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| The study of how context affects language use: both whether or not a particular utterance is felicitous in a given context and how the context affects that utterance's meaning or interpretation |
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| The aspect of an utterance's context that includes such information as where the speakers are, who is speaking, what is going on around them, and what is going on in the world that all speakers can reasonably be expected to be aware of |
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| The aspect of an utterance's context that includes information and the social relationships between participants in the discourse, what their status is relative to each other, and so on |
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| Actions that are performed only through using language: a term that describes the use of speech emphasizing the speaker's intention or goal in producing an utterance |
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| A speech event: a particular occurrence of a person speaking or signing. Also, the content (words, phrases, or sentences) of what is said. Utterances are represented by the use of quotation marks |
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