Thursday 11th September 2014
Example of text: theme tension |
Concepts and Approaches: Four Frameworks
Contextual features
- Situation factors
- Status and relations
- Discourse conventions (stretches of language longer than sentences) and modes of address
- Purpose, audience an genre
It's important to consider:
- Who is speaking
- What type of talk they are involved in
- The relationship between the speakers, and their responses
- Language is used for what purpose
- Breaking conventions or overlooking language is more obvious in writing, in contrast to sticking to the rules
Two interactional features
- Pragmatics
- Turn taking
- Modes of address
- Agenda-setting in conversation