A.
Definition of Conversation
Conversation
is clearly the prototypical kind of language usage, the form in which we are
all first exposed to language. All major aspects of
pragmatic organization are connected to usage in conversation such as Deixis: encoding of temporal, spatial,
social, discourse parameters organized around the assumption of co-present
conversational participants. Presupposition: involving constraints on the way
in which information has to be presented if it is to be introduced to
particular participants with specific shared knowledge and assumptions about
the world. Implicatures: deriving from specific assumptions about
conversational context. Speech acts:
building on the assumption of a conversational matrix (e.g., betting requires
an uptake to be effective).
