Summarising key points:
- Indirect speech act- Veil our intentions in innuendo, hoping for our reader to read in between the lines e.g "Would you like to come up and see my etchings?" is a sexual innuendo.
- Language has to do two things:
- 1. It's got to convey some content as a bribe, command or proposition.
- 2. It's got to negotiate a relationship type.
- Dominance- Inherited from the dominance hierarchies/ Kin selection and mutualism
- Communality- share and share alike. Would be classed as appropriate e.g. among friends.
- Reciprocity- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours/ business like (tit for tat). Would be classed as appropriate e.g. a restaurant.
- What you can get away with in a communality relationship, you can't get away with in a dominance relationship.
- A divergent understanding can lead to awkwardness.
- An obvious innuendo still seems more comfortable than a direct overture.
- Individual knowledge = A knows x and B knows x
- Mutual knowledge = A knows that B knows x and A knows that B knows A knows x /B knows that A knows x and B knows that A knows that B knows x.
- 'The Emperor's new clothes' is a story about mutual knowledge. Everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone knows. It gives them 'collective power' to challenge the dominance of the Emperor.
- Innuendos provide individual knowledge.
- Direct speech provides mutual knowledge.
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