Glossary of Bolded Terms


  • Assumption: A general idea based upon situations or activities we have repeatedly experienced or observed. (Short 225)
  • Dramatic Irony: When words or actions have different meanings for the characters than they do for the viewer, due to having greater knowledge than the characters. (Short 169)
  • Euphemism: The use of a word or words not directly related to the intended meaning used in order to soften or disguise the intended meaning. (Short 230)
  • Face: Can be divided into negative and positive. Negative face is our wish that our actions should be unhindered by others. Positive face is our need for our actions to be desirable to others. (Short 213)
  • Face Threatening Act (FTA): An action or speech that endangers either positive or negative face. (Short 213)
  • Felicity Conditions: Conventions that speakers and addressees use as a code to produce and recognize actions. (Simpson 87)
  • Fillers: Small words or utterances used to allow time to think. Some examples include; "umm" or "let me see". (Short 175)
  • Frame: Similar to a script, the frame contains information which is ordered non-sequentially. (Short 228)
  • Illocutionary Force: A kind of speech act that usually comprises of asserting, inquiring or ordering. (Short 197)
  • Imperative: A command or direct address or request. (Simpson 36)
  • Indirect Speech: The act of speaking for someone else, commonly characterized by "... said". (Short 288)
  • Inference: understanding of all human behaviour, linguistic or non-linguistic [...] based on different sorts of assumption. (Short 238)
  • Narrative Dialogue: A kind of dialogue most used in literature that is marked by its lack of fillers or normal non-fluency features. (Simpson 19)
  • Normal Non-Fluency Feature: Mistakes in regards to turn taking, pronunciation, word choice, relevancy, grammar, etc... that are normal in everyday speech. (Short 176)
  • Perlocutionary Force: Divided into two aspects, intended perlocutionary force is what the speaker intends by a particular speech act. Actual perlocutionary force is what the addressee of the speech act interprets. (Short 197)
  • Schema: A connected package of related information about a particular subject. (Short 227)
  • Script: A series of sequentially ordered pieces of information. (Short 228)

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