Maxim of Quality
The maxim of quality is an expectation that people will say truthful things in a conversation. It is one of the four expectations that make up Grice’s Maxims, otherwise known as the Cooperative Principle.
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Interlocutor
The term “interlocutor” refers to people who are speaking in a conversation. In other words, the interlocutors are the participants of the conversation.
Implicature
An implicature is a hidden or implicit meaning that you create when you break one of Grice’s Maxims.
Grice’s Maxims
Grice’s Maxims, otherwise known as the Cooperative Principle, is a set of expectations that we have in spoken conversation.
Text
In literary theory, a text is anything that we can use to communicate information, messages, stories, ideas and feelings. It can be consumed, analysed, interpreted and understood by us and other people.
Text Receiver
The text receiver is the person (or people) who reads, watches or listens to the text. They rely on the cues and devices in the text to help them interpret it.
Feature Spotting
Feature spotting is a BAD thing to do in your essays. It’s when you pick out the devices or terminology that you can find in a text without analysing what the text producer is doing.
Contraction
A contraction is a type of abbreviation that skips letters in a word or phrase to create a single, shorter word. It will usually use an apostrophe to show that letters are missing.
Initialism
An initialism is a type of abbreviation where you combine the first letters of each word in a sentence or phrase. It looks like a new word, but you pronounce each letter individually when you say it out loud.
Acronym
An acronym is a type of abbreviation where you make a word from a phrase or sentence. You make this word by taking the first letter of each word in the original phrase or sentence. Then, you pronounce it like it’s a new word on its own – you don’t sound out each letter individually.
