PRAGMATICS

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Across
  1. 2. Is a cognitive mechanism anchored to model users in their roles as speakers or producers of conversational contributions. For example: an inference.
  2. 4. Context Is the foundation on which inference and other forms of reasoning are based. For example: mental representation, propositions, contextual assumption, etc.
  3. 6. Acts that are performed with the intention of producing a further effect. For example: Fire! You expect everyone clear the room.
  4. 12. Refers to the presupposition of something, used in writing or speech. In other words refers to repetition. Example: I am weak, I am Intelligent, I am smart.
  5. 13. Acts in which the words state what the speaker feels, such as apologizing, congratulating and regretting. For example: I’m sorry.
Down
  1. 1. Refers to the type of function a speaker intends to perform a producing utterance. For example: Is cold in here! And one would understand to close a window or a door.
  2. 3. Is the use of expressions to point to a person. For example: I, you, he, she it, we and they. We can find 3 different types; person, place and time.
  3. 5. Is another form of grammatical cohesion, used typically in speaking (conversations tend to be less explicit) and written text. Ellipsis is used when there is no ambiguity.
  4. 7. is the act of reporting by an indirect quotation. For example: The bar will be closed in five minutes.
  5. 8. Acts in which the words commit the speaker to future action, such as promising, offering refusing, vowing etc. For example: I’ll always love you.
  6. 9. The speaker means something that goes beyond sentence meaning without implicating anything or using any expression figuratively. For example: You’re not going to die.
  7. 10. Is when the interpretation of reference lies beyond the text. Example: proper nouns.
  8. 11. pairs Is a type of turn-taking in which there is a relation between acts, and that conversation contains second utterances dependent on the first. For Example: the utterance of one speaker makes a certain response of the next = an invitation followed by an acceptance.