Chapter 6 Pragmatics and Text Analysis【荐】.pptVIP

* 22 The politness principle and its maxims can be ignored in some situations, such as: (a) In times of emergency or when the primary concern is the efficiency of communication rather than the face; (b) When the threat to the hearer’s face is minor or none; (c) When the speaker has authority over the hearer; (d) When the speaker and the hearer are in intimate relations. Presupposition the Structure of Discourse Pragmatic Presupposition: Pragmatic Presupposition: a relation between a speaker and the appropriateness of a sentence in a context, thus it is very sensitive to contextu