Speech acts and conversational maxims

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This video lecture is a part of the course 'An Introduction to English Linguistics' at the University of Neuchâtel. This is session 12, in which I discuss speech acts and conversational maxims.

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  • @FinnDavid
    @FinnDavid10 жыл бұрын

    I think you just saved me from failing my linguistics exam. Thank you very much. You´re doing an amazing job!

  • @MartinHilpert

    @MartinHilpert

    10 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching and good luck with your exam!

  • @kokoskowapanienka
    @kokoskowapanienka10 жыл бұрын

    I wish my teachers explained linguistic in such a clear way.

  • @zoejones1816
    @zoejones18164 жыл бұрын

    This is a great explanation of pragmatics. PS - the airport employee voice was hilarious

  • @deadman746
    @deadman7468 ай бұрын

    Yours are the best YT lectures on cognitive linguistics are the best I've encountered. I view pragmatics, in the sense of Wilson's semiotics from 1939, as more basic than semantics with the latter being an idealized version of the former and not always appropriate. It explains the diachronic early evolution of language from speech acts, or Wittgenstein's language games, using animal noises. It also explains how it is easy to come up with meanings not mentioned in dictionaries. Semantics is too tightly bound to the act of defining, which is its own frame with its own conventions that often get in the way

  • @princerickyvarona5657
    @princerickyvarona56575 жыл бұрын

    This explanation of speech acts and the conversational maxims is so clear. Thank you sir.

  • @ramongomes85
    @ramongomes859 жыл бұрын

    Very objective and kind of funny. Loved it! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the world!

  • @baselzain5886
    @baselzain58866 жыл бұрын

    That video really helped me to understand pragmatics, especially the speech acts better. Thank you!

  • @alecwang9417
    @alecwang94175 жыл бұрын

    You are such a genius teacher! I like you!Keep making videos!

  • @gr1nas
    @gr1nas3 жыл бұрын

    the clearest explanation on KZread! Thanks

  • @jakubskurek1787
    @jakubskurek17876 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the clear and coherent presentation of the discussed concepts.

  • @Petrakis81
    @Petrakis816 жыл бұрын

    I always find your videos very useful! I couldn't believe it when you used Viz to explain Indirect Speech Acts, great stuff!!!

  • @ainny2293
    @ainny22939 жыл бұрын

    Thank u so much ! this video is very useful for me as if i'm attending pragmatics' revision class. your explanation is very simple but clear :) may god bless u, mr. hilpert.

  • @dana23299
    @dana232994 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! This was EXTREMELY helpful!!

  • @davidzhu5133
    @davidzhu51337 жыл бұрын

    Mark, I love you: you are the best English linguistics professor in the world! Hope to see more of your videos in the future. Love you ! David

  • @MartinHilpert

    @MartinHilpert

    7 жыл бұрын

    I'm flattered, thank you!

  • @demiroezden
    @demiroezden8 жыл бұрын

    Das Video ist sehr hilfreich. Ich hoffe, dass ich die Pragmatik-Klausur bestehen werde. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE VIDEO!!!

  • @Lawofimprobability
    @Lawofimprobability4 жыл бұрын

    I think this would be a very useful primary school class. I would definitely have benefited by understanding that other people took a stronger assumption of relevance than I do.

  • @JohnnyV_Val

    @JohnnyV_Val

    4 жыл бұрын

    How come you weren't 1st on this page?

  • @rosalindrosenfeld1365
    @rosalindrosenfeld13656 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Visual explanations are easier than reading text. Now I can finish my final course in my Masters. Btw, can you do a video on Goffman's communication constraints? It will help for those uni students doing Discourse Analysis.

  • @alinabucur1934
    @alinabucur19349 жыл бұрын

    That was extremely helpful! I'm having an examination on pragmatics tomorrow so I will certainly use some of the information shown in this video. P.S. Those were really funny examples, I wish all my teachers would use them

  • @MartinHilpert

    @MartinHilpert

    9 жыл бұрын

    Alina Zagoneanu Thanks, and good luck!

  • @der.shadia9322

    @der.shadia9322

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Alina Bucur are you a linguistics student?

  • @tsheringsamdrup2522
    @tsheringsamdrup25222 жыл бұрын

    Thoroughly enjoyed the lecture. Thank you

  • @ananoto1460
    @ananoto14603 жыл бұрын

    So useful information for me, unfortunately i bump into your videos very late for my exam, they are so useful!!!!! wish to have found these explanations before

  • @karlalandaeta8511
    @karlalandaeta85119 жыл бұрын

    This video was very helpful ! I thought at first it was too long! But you couldn't respect the maxim of quantity and relevance any better! haha! =) Things are clearer to me now. Thank you very much!

  • @MartinHilpert

    @MartinHilpert

    9 жыл бұрын

    Touché ;)

  • @NapatidaPor
    @NapatidaPor9 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, it's really good !!

  • @mariaangraeni408
    @mariaangraeni4083 жыл бұрын

    Clear explanation. Thank you!

  • @fatmaacar1730
    @fatmaacar17303 жыл бұрын

    ı wısh you were my teacher, you are so good at it! Finally, ı understood this subject.

  • @norahtubagus1962
    @norahtubagus19623 жыл бұрын

    wow i understand each word you say, thank you

  • @bumble2able
    @bumble2able6 жыл бұрын

    A massive thank you !!!

  • @jiangwei7117
    @jiangwei71176 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the information!

  • @mariahadjar6885
    @mariahadjar68854 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot .I follow you from Algeria. you are really a good teacher .

  • @MartinHilpert

    @MartinHilpert

    4 жыл бұрын

    Many thanks, Maria!

  • @reguigradhia5303
    @reguigradhia53034 жыл бұрын

    Thank you You really save me🌼🌼🌼

  • @danishfarman1346
    @danishfarman13467 жыл бұрын

    Really very helpful data.. will you please like to help us in understanding the difference of violation and flouting of maxims and presupposition and entailment... looking forward to it...

  • @563891nr
    @563891nr8 жыл бұрын

    Thank u very much indeed

  • @vineetasaluja2531
    @vineetasaluja25315 жыл бұрын

    awesome way of explanation.

  • @vineetasaluja2531

    @vineetasaluja2531

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi, where can i have an access to rest of your lectures sir?

  • @user-hn2um2yf3j
    @user-hn2um2yf3j7 жыл бұрын

    THIS VEDIEO IS VERY USEFUL.THANK YOU SIR

  • @isalongoni
    @isalongoni4 жыл бұрын

    Hi Prof., I would like to thank you first of all, you helped me so much preparing my exam in pragmatics that I'm gonna ask you if perhaps there is a video on leech's politeness maxims and CDA too. it would be fantastic. I really appreciate your work. isabella

  • @isalongoni

    @isalongoni

    4 жыл бұрын

    exam done. thks again

  • @alexe610
    @alexe6106 жыл бұрын

    Dear pr. , at 1:50 can we replace speaker's thought and hearer's thought by signifier and signified respectively? Thank you very much.

  • @lateefalqasab6864
    @lateefalqasab68644 жыл бұрын

    Great .

  • @Leipzigist
    @Leipzigist8 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this video, Martin. I have to sit a linguistics exam and your video has helped me assimilate as well as reinforce concepts. I have, however, one question to ask regarding the grouping of speech acts. 'Verdictives' is a new term for me. I had studied 'rogatives' as proposed by Leech. Is there more than one way of organising speech acts?

  • @MartinHilpert

    @MartinHilpert

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Leipzigist Yes, there are several typologies with slightly different categories. Pick the one that's most useful for your exam! ;)

  • @Leipzigist

    @Leipzigist

    8 жыл бұрын

    oh thank you very much, Martin :) I'll have a look at it.

  • @thestagbeetle459
    @thestagbeetle4598 жыл бұрын

    How about Rogatives? Why did I find different options of Austin's theory? First, I found out that there are 5 main categories, then I found there are 6 (+rogatives), and now I am finding out that there are 6 (+verdictives). Could someone enlight me ?

  • @bassmarabia1736
    @bassmarabia17368 жыл бұрын

    thank you for this explanation . in fact Im facing some troubles in making distinction between flouting and violaton . i want to analyse an old play based on Grice four maxims . i want some help plllllz

  • @richardsnow1753

    @richardsnow1753

    7 жыл бұрын

    Bassma Rabia We talk about 'flouting' of a certain maxim when the purpose of the break with the norm is known to the hearer (e.g.,I like the linguistics class) . On the other hand, 'violation' happens when the reason behind the breach of the maxim is not known to the hearer.

  • @anamariatomasevic269
    @anamariatomasevic2693 жыл бұрын

    Hi! I have a question, for the example *A: "Have you done the reading for your seminar? B: I intended to." Saeed says that we imply the answer is no, because if the answer was yes, the person would violate the maxim of quantity. Is it because then the person wouldn't give enough information(talks about the intention, not about the if he's done it). According to him, there's no violation of the maxim?

  • @MartinHilpert

    @MartinHilpert

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, that's right. The maxim of quantity states that speakers should be as informative as possible. The response "I intended to" is only in line with that maxim if it is meant as "I intended to, but finally there was no time". The other way around, if you actually wanted to communicate "Yes I did", saying "I intended to" would be less than fully informative, and thus in conflict with the maxim of quantity.

  • @anamariatomasevic269

    @anamariatomasevic269

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MartinHilpert can't believe you replied, thank you!

  • @ngominh259
    @ngominh2598 жыл бұрын

    May I ask: "I think we should thank you." Is that representative or expressive?

  • @guitarerooo

    @guitarerooo

    8 жыл бұрын

    probably depends on the context^^

  • @richardsnow1753

    @richardsnow1753

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hoàng Minh Ngô Vũ It is representative because you are stating a supposed fact .

  • @Ramzi_Ghanmi
    @Ramzi_Ghanmi3 жыл бұрын

    His full name is Herbert Paul Grice.

  • @englishwithtjmalik1383
    @englishwithtjmalik13834 жыл бұрын

    good

  • @kestinehogayre6192
    @kestinehogayre61922 жыл бұрын

    11:25

  • @maxdrenthan780
    @maxdrenthan7803 жыл бұрын

    "poor but honest" i believe more insults rich than insults poor

  • @a.a.4887
    @a.a.488710 жыл бұрын

    Hello, thank you very much for these videos can you please help me? If we have a sentence like "Drinking too much can cause mental retardation" and we have to draw a structure tree of this sentence what would we write in the brunch that points toward "Drinking" is just N or something else? S / NP / N / Drinking please help me with this because I'm not sure about the ing form Thanks a lot

  • @Sakura-j6p
    @Sakura-j6p3 жыл бұрын

    min 11:18 you said that in the example "A republic was declared and the king had a heart attack" is a causal relationship... isn't it a causal relationship in the previous example as well "The king has a heart attack and a republic was declared"? they declared republic because the king had died.

  • @MartinHilpert

    @MartinHilpert

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sure, you could say that. The main point is that the meanings of the two sentences would still be different.

  • @shadi489
    @shadi4897 жыл бұрын

    every thing i say or think is wrong ------------i am missunderstood------ why ?

  • @dlon8899

    @dlon8899

    4 жыл бұрын

    Everything you say or think is right....because you are missoverstood

  • @edsonarmandoramirezreynoso9408
    @edsonarmandoramirezreynoso94082 жыл бұрын

    Like if Martin Hilpert help you to understand this topic

  • @miligonzalez1517
    @miligonzalez15172 жыл бұрын

    you are handsome

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