1. What is discourse? What is discourse analysis? What role do discourse and context play in communication?...
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1. What is discourse? What is discourse analysis? What role do discourse and context play in communication? (Consider Grice’s theory of conversational implicature.). How is this discourse/conversational analysis central to forensic linguistics?
2. Consider the theory of speech acts. What is a speech act? (as discussed in Shuy (Handbook of Discourse Analysis ) and in Solan & Tiersma, ch. 2) Give some examples to illustrate. How is this type of pragmatic research important in forensic linguistics?
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