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COMM 2400
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Communication
Undergraduate 2
10/25/2012

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Term
Grice's Cooperative Principle
Definition
-Quality
-Quantity
-Relevance
-Manner
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Conversational Implicature
Definition
provides a model no of how people actually talk, but how they make sense of others talk
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interactional meanings
Definition
situated meaning of utterances for each participant
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identity work
Definition
the process by which discursive practices build peoples identities
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master identity
Definition
relatively unchanging characteristics
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interactional identity
Definition
who someones is in interaction with someone else in a particular situation
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personal identity
Definition
what kinds of things mark someone as a someone with a unique personality - portrays people as having stable personal characteristics
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relational identities
Definition
aspects of the relationship between speakers - interpersonal history of social relations, equal, hierarchal, close or distant
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solidarity face
Definition
desire to be likes/appreciated
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competence face
Definition
desire to be seen as competent
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autonomy face
Definition
desire to be left alone to do as one pleases
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rhetorical perspective
Definition
people talk in certain ways because they want to portray/avoid certain identities
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root metaphor
Definition
portraying one frame as another in order to make sense of the situation
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topic management
Definition
what is okay to talk about and what is not
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structuring interaction
Definition
who can say/when
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cultural perspective
Definition
communicators are acting within a larger system of meaning and social structures that are no of their own making
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speech code
Definition
a system of socially constructed symbols and meanings, premises, and rules pertaining to communicative conduct
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interpersonal ideology
Definition
beliefs about what counts as reasonable conduct, what values to pursue in interaction, how to interact with persons of particular identities
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category ascriptions
Definition
what category a person is placed into
Term
accompany descriptors
Definition
the words used to accomplish the categorization in discourse
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speech act
Definition
the social meaning of a short segment of talk
Term
variable feature of voice
Definition
the strategic use of paralinguistic markers
Term
stable features of voice
Definition
categorize speakers as members of a particular social group, and/or having particular social traits
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communication accommodation theory
Definition
we match our dialect to our conversational partners in order to build solidarity/competence face, but can also diverge from our partners in order to keep a distance from the undesired face
Term
adjacency pairs
Definition
a particular first turn that calls for a particular second term
Term
turn taking vocabulary
Definition
-conversational floor
-transition relevance place
-overlap
-interruption
Term
direct speech
Definition
a speakers intended action reflected in words
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indirect speech
Definition
content does not match intended act; requires considerable conversational inferencing
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model of narrative sequence
Definition
1. abstract
2. orientation
3. complicating action
4. evaluation
5. result/resolution
Term
function of stories
Definition
-persuasion
-performing particular speech acts
-self presentation
-relational work
-self positioning in ongoing conflict
-expressing morally questionable or devalued points
Term
stance
Definition
discursive practice of performing attitudes towards things
Term
unmarked forms
Definition
normal, usual, reasonable
Term
marked forms
Definition
out of the ordinary
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code switching
Definition
moving back and forth between dialects and languages within a single situation
Term
heteroglossia
Definition
emphasize the social nature of language and individual appropriation of language in use. variety of language activates a variety of identities in that moment
Term
phronensis
Definition
an ideal outcome of communication education (communicating wisely)
Term
Overt prestige
Definition
dialect that is widely recognized as being used by a culturally dominant group
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covert prestige
Definition
dialect perceived by the dominant culture group as being inferior but which compels its speakers to use it to show membership in an exclusive community
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