If I may say so
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Anita Fetzer
Abstract
This contribution examines those contexts in which a contribution is assigned the status of not such as is required (Grice 1975). The first part analyses the theoretical construct of appropriateness in an integrated framework based on Habermas’s theory of communicative action, Gice’s logic and conversation and Sbisà’s approach to speech act theory. The second part operationalizes the theoretical construct as appropriateness conditions. The third part presents a data analysis in which the form and function of explicit and implicit references to appropriateness are analysed in the genre of a political interview. Particular attention is given to the questions of where the inappropriateness is manifest, what constitutive part of the contribution is assigned the status of being inappropriate, who refers to the inappropriateness and how the inappropriateness is realized linguistically.
Abstract
This contribution examines those contexts in which a contribution is assigned the status of not such as is required (Grice 1975). The first part analyses the theoretical construct of appropriateness in an integrated framework based on Habermas’s theory of communicative action, Gice’s logic and conversation and Sbisà’s approach to speech act theory. The second part operationalizes the theoretical construct as appropriateness conditions. The third part presents a data analysis in which the form and function of explicit and implicit references to appropriateness are analysed in the genre of a political interview. Particular attention is given to the questions of where the inappropriateness is manifest, what constitutive part of the contribution is assigned the status of being inappropriate, who refers to the inappropriateness and how the inappropriateness is realized linguistically.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
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Introduction
- Context, contexts and appropriateness 3
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Part I. Bridging problems between context and appropriateness
- Similar situations 31
- Appropriateness and felicity conditions: A theoretical issue 55
- Appropriateness 79
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Part II: Bridging problems between communicative action and appropriateness
- If I may say so 115
- The appropriateness of questions 147
- Cooperative conflict and evasive language 167
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Part III: Bridging problems between micro and macro
- The attenuating conditional 203
- Collaborative use of contrastive markers 235
- Index 261
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
-
Introduction
- Context, contexts and appropriateness 3
-
Part I. Bridging problems between context and appropriateness
- Similar situations 31
- Appropriateness and felicity conditions: A theoretical issue 55
- Appropriateness 79
-
Part II: Bridging problems between communicative action and appropriateness
- If I may say so 115
- The appropriateness of questions 147
- Cooperative conflict and evasive language 167
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Part III: Bridging problems between micro and macro
- The attenuating conditional 203
- Collaborative use of contrastive markers 235
- Index 261
