Discourse Structure Flashcards
non-fluency features
Fillers, repetition, false starts and verbal elements tied to spoken language
Interjections
Words like ‘ug-oh’, ‘oops’, ‘argh’
Vernacular
Another word for communication, speech, way of speaking
Discourse Markers
Signal order, chronology, indicate someone to speak e.g ‘first’, ‘next’, ‘right’, ‘so’
Cohesive Markers
Types of discourse markers that add chronology to a text e.g ‘first’, ‘secondly’
Phatic token/talk
small talk, a convo to establish to maintain or establish a relationship
Self oriented phatic tokens
when you talk about yourself in convo
Other oriented phatic tokens
Related to the listener e.g how are you, do you work here
Salutations (openers)
ways of greeting somebody
Valedictions (closers)
forms of saying goodbye
pre-closing sequences
a convo that mutually establishes it should begin to end
Backchannelling
responding to another person to show you are listening such as ‘hm’ ‘yeah’
Overlap
Talking over someone to support them
Interrupt
Talking over someone to take the floor of the convo
anecdotal information
when the speaker/writer tells a story in order to persuade
