Book contents
- English as a Lingua Franca
- English as a Lingua Franca
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Nature of English as a Lingua Franca
- 2 Linguistic Creativity in ELF
- 3 Interactional Competence
- 4 Sociocultural Background Knowledge
- 5 Speaker’s Intention
- 6 The Semantics–Pragmatics Interface
- 7 Implicatures
- 8 Modality
- 9 Dialogic Sequences and Odd Structures
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
5 - Speaker’s Intention
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2019
Book contents
- English as a Lingua Franca
- English as a Lingua Franca
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Nature of English as a Lingua Franca
- 2 Linguistic Creativity in ELF
- 3 Interactional Competence
- 4 Sociocultural Background Knowledge
- 5 Speaker’s Intention
- 6 The Semantics–Pragmatics Interface
- 7 Implicatures
- 8 Modality
- 9 Dialogic Sequences and Odd Structures
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
The chapter claims that speaker’s utterance when formulating intention is shaped not only by recipient design but also by salience effect. While fitting words into actual situational contexts the speaker is driven not only by the intent that the hearer recognizes what is meant as intended by the speaker, but also by individual salience that affects production subconsciously. The interplay of these social (recipient design) and individual factors (salience) shapes speaker utterance. Recipient design usually results in inductive sequences while salience effect triggers a deductive sequence.
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- English as a Lingua FrancaThe Pragmatic Perspective, pp. 113 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019