The categories really do help simplify the analysis of a speech event.
Genre, topic, purpose/function, setting, key, participants, message form, act sequence, rules for interaction, norms of interpretation.
Without these guidelines, i doubt i would be able to classify or describe a speech event that easily.
But among all those, i think the most difficult to develop upon on would be the norms of interpretation. since most of the times it comes so naturally to us that we tend to think that it is a given and fail to notice it.
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Agree. Norms of interpretation are not something that can be observed but something that needs to be deduced from the observable as well as implicit rules.
ReplyDeleteThe norm of interpretation really differs a lot even for people from the same culture. So it is something that needs to be established over time.
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