Sociolinguistics & Discourse Review Sheet

Answer the following questions in the space provided.

1. What is the overriding principle of conversations?

2. What are the two general types of rules that govern what people say?

 

3. Paul Grice, articulated four rules for efficient speech, known as conversational maxims. What are they?

 

4. List the different types of speech acts identified by Searle.

5. Taking into account the Given-New strategy, identify the new information in the following sentence: The umbrella in the car was green.

 

6. Define the term anaphora and explain what an anaphora resolution refers to.

7. How does the term accent differ from the term dialect?