English Terminology

PHATIC LANGUAGE- Sociable (purely relationships/ chatting).

FORMALITY- The way people speak and the tone they use. 

DEIXIS- Words that refer (point) to something.
PRONOUN- A word used in place of a noun.

CONTEXT DEPENDENT - When you have to know the context to understand the message.
CONTEXT INDEPENDENT- When you can understand the message.
LOCUTION- The literal sense of what you're saying, what you're saying.
ILLOCUTION - Implied meaning, what you really mean.
PERLOCUTION- Perceived meaning, what you think they are telling you to do.

CULTURAL ASSUMPTIONS - A person from another country or culture may not understand things we do.

PRAGMATICS- Underline meaning of what someone thinks or the way meaning is implied in a social text.