QUESTION 1

- Topic
- Cultural knowledege
- Knowledge of the context
- Familiarity with other
speakers
Extralinguistic knowledge

- Sociocultural knowledge
(norms/behaviour of a society)

Genre Knowledge
- transactional vs interpersonal
- interactive vs non interactive
- planned vs unplanned
What Speakers know

Discourse Knowledge
- to form coherent stretches of
discourse
-to make link with previous
speakers turn.

Pragmatic Knowledge
(relation between language
and its context of use)
-speech acts
Linguistic Knowledge
-the co-operative principle
-politeness
-register

Grammar

Vocabulary

Phonology
(pronunciation)
- intonation
QUESTION 2

TYPE OF MAXIM EXAMPLES

1. Quantity
A: Where did you go yesterday?
B: I went to SCM.

2. Quality
A: What should I do to get rid of this headache?
B: Take 2 tablets of Panadol and a glass of water.

3. Relation
A: How would you like your steak?
B: Well done please.

4. Manner
A: What are you baking?
B: I’m baking a cake and muffins

Question 3

When a person is not familiar with the topic, genre, interlocutors or even the processing demand, the
person will not be able to deliver his speech fluently.