- Direct/Indirect speech acts
- Cooperative Principle
- Maxims of conversation (Quality, Quantity. Relevance, Manner
- Conversational Implicature
- Primary and Secondary Illocutionary Force
- Positive and Negative Face
- FTAs
- Positive and Negative politeness
- Query Preparatory phrase
- Mood derivable-Imperative
- Power, Distance, Relative imposition and their relevance to cross-cultural concepts of politeness
- Conversational routine
- Turn taking, back-channeling, preferred and dispreferred turn structure, closings
- Stereotyping, in-group/out-group
- Hofstede’s Cultural dimensions
- Masculine/feminine; individualistic/collectivist; uncertainty avoidance; high/low power distance;
- Forms of address
- Power semantics of pronouns; T/V distinction; honorifics;self/other specifiers; nicknames
These speech acts in CMC?
Gender/class/ ethnicity inflections?