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Pragmatics, linguistic competence, and Conversation Analysis

  • Charles Antaki
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Pragmaticizing Understanding
This chapter is in the book Pragmaticizing Understanding

Abstract

Competent speakers have effortless mastery over talk; traditional theories about what happens when that goes wrong tend to locate the problem in the speaker. Conversation Analysis offers a radical alternative, stressing the role of the speaker’s interlocutors and the structures of conversation that all parties can use.

Abstract

Competent speakers have effortless mastery over talk; traditional theories about what happens when that goes wrong tend to locate the problem in the speaker. Conversation Analysis offers a radical alternative, stressing the role of the speaker’s interlocutors and the structures of conversation that all parties can use.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. On how to pragmaticize understanding 1
  4. Does the autonomy of linguistics rest on the autonomy of syntax? 15
  5. Classifying illocutionary acts, or, a tale of Theory and Praxis 39
  6. Spatial indexicalities and spatial pragmatics 53
  7. Pragmatics as a facilitator for child syntax development 77
  8. Pragmatics, linguistic competence, and Conversation Analysis 101
  9. Pragmatics and dialogue phenomena 113
  10. Roots of the wakimae aspect of linguistic politeness 121
  11. “Laura! Laura! Wake up” 139
  12. Knowledge, discourse and domination 151
  13. The public face of language 197
  14. The compleat angle on pragmatics 213
  15. Tabula Gratulatoria 219
  16. Index 229
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.170.06ant

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. On how to pragmaticize understanding 1
  4. Does the autonomy of linguistics rest on the autonomy of syntax? 15
  5. Classifying illocutionary acts, or, a tale of Theory and Praxis 39
  6. Spatial indexicalities and spatial pragmatics 53
  7. Pragmatics as a facilitator for child syntax development 77
  8. Pragmatics, linguistic competence, and Conversation Analysis 101
  9. Pragmatics and dialogue phenomena 113
  10. Roots of the wakimae aspect of linguistic politeness 121
  11. “Laura! Laura! Wake up” 139
  12. Knowledge, discourse and domination 151
  13. The public face of language 197
  14. The compleat angle on pragmatics 213
  15. Tabula Gratulatoria 219
  16. Index 229
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