English Language and Literature Waiting for Godot and Talk in Life and Literature

What does the steer mean? How far do you think it is true? 

• Existentiliast - What's the point?! Life!
• Theatre of the absurd - Bedwilderment/Anxiety/Wonder 
• Mysterious
• Repetition of negatives
• The human condition - What it's like to live and be human
• Tragi-comdey - Paradox/Tragic-comedy
• Avant Garde - Deliberately wierd
• Alienation
• Modernism - Post modernism (past) and Modernism (rules/conventions broken)

• Grice Maxims - Quality/Quantity/Relevance/Manner
• MLU (Mean Length of Utterance) - High/Medium/Low
• Equivocation  - unclear words/lang
• Sub-textual meaning
• Types of utterances - Declarative (statements)/Interrogative (qs)/Excalamtory (!)
• Politeness rule - Postive/negative
• Felecity conditions
• Dyadic/Adjacency pairs 
• Reformulation - putting statment into different words
• Accomodation theory - working together in convo
• Non-fluency features - hedges/fillers/false starts 

• Alliteration
• Reptition/Anaphora
• Aporia - expression of doubt
• Antithesis - opposition/contrast of ideas
• Circumiocation - going round in circles
• Equivocation - long words/deliberatley confusing
• Hyperbole
• Obfuscation - hiding behind long words/avoiding
• Personification
• Bathos - builds up then falls flat
• Pleonasm - over explaining
• Metaphor
• Similes
• Stichomythia - intensify drama/comedydrama/thesis and antithesis 

• Repetition/Anaphora
• Alienation
• Humour
• Tension/Suspence
• Change of mood and tone - contrast
• Foreboding/foreshadowing - something bad is about to happen
• Parallels - characters = similar 
• Concept ritual - tightly choreographed
• Inconsistent characers/lack of psyhchological realism  

• Context - when? why? what? where? who? how?
• Audience - Internal/External
• Purpose - Entertain/Persuade/Inform 

• Grice Maxims  - Quantity/Quality/Relevance/Manner
• MLU - High/Low
• Felecity conditions - Right place, right time
• Politeness rule - Positive/Negative
• Co-operative principles - Describes how people interact with others

• Repetition/Anaphora
• False starts
• Pauses
• Fillers
• Fluent/hesitant 

• Turn taking
• Adjaceny pairs/dyadic
• Back channeling - Indirect means of exchaning sensetive info
• Tag qs
• Overlaps
• Stichomythia - intendify drama/rhetorical/tension/comedy/thesis+antithesis

• Dialect 
• Vague language
• Field - specific lexis
• Punctuation
• Standard/non-standard English - Martin Joo's 5 styles - Formal, Intimate, Casual, Consultive and Frozen 

• Declarative - statment
• Interrogative - q's
• Imperative - command
• Exclamative - !
• Compound - "I like to go to town and I like buses"

• Labvov's Narrative Structure Theory 
  • Abstract (summary)
  • Orientation (context)
  • Evaluation (point of interest)
  • Narrative (story telling)
  • Result (what finally happens)
  • Coda (signals the end)

• Who's the speaker? 

• Ephemeral - doesn't mean anything
• Date/time it was written depends of Attidues + values - gender/age/race/religion/class
• Implicit/explicit - hidden/obvious
• Level of formality
• Read between lines to understand