Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Communicative Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 3 Basis for the Description of Discourse as an Interactive Process
- 4 On Keeping Talking Without Saying Anything (Much): The Use of Gambits in Interaction
- 5 Using Words to Make Meaning: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions in Everyday Talk
- 6 On Saying What You Mean: Illocutions in Different Interactional Slots
- 7 Building Up Interactional Episodes
- 8 Types of Talk in the Global Classroom
- 9 The Interactional Practice of Grammatical Items
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
5 - Using Words to Make Meaning: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions in Everyday Talk
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Communicative Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 3 Basis for the Description of Discourse as an Interactive Process
- 4 On Keeping Talking Without Saying Anything (Much): The Use of Gambits in Interaction
- 5 Using Words to Make Meaning: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions in Everyday Talk
- 6 On Saying What You Mean: Illocutions in Different Interactional Slots
- 7 Building Up Interactional Episodes
- 8 Types of Talk in the Global Classroom
- 9 The Interactional Practice of Grammatical Items
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 5, we examine those expressions through which language users conventionally indicate illocutionary acts such as requesting. We define these expressions as Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIEs), arguing that they are recurrently used to indicate illocutionary acts in specific standard situations with preset rights and obligations for participants. Learning and teaching the use of such expressions can be particularly difficult due to their interactional load and linguacultural specificity.
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- Expressions, Speech Acts and DiscourseA Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English, pp. 74 - 95Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023