Azus Notes

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According to Levinson (1983) unlike a sentence, a conversation is not a structural product – it is rather the result of the interaction between two or more independent, goal-directed individuals,
with often divergent interests.
Conversation Analysis (CA), the study of talk in interaction (inspired by ethnomethodology) was developed in the 1960s and early 1970s principally by the [...]

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Our world knowledge and social knowledge is crucial for the production and understanding of discourse.
For effective communication to occur, it is necessary that
- the receiver have enough prior knowledge
- the sender correctly judge the extent of that knowledge
How our pre-existing knowledge of the world shapes the production and understanding of discourse attracted attention mostly due [...]

Think about the following situation:
You see a man snatch a lady’s bag and run. You chase the man and when you catch him you hold his hands behind his back and say, ‘You are under arrest’.
Would the man consider himself under arrest? Why?
Another example:
If I were to say:
’s of now, I declare the Maldives a [...]

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