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Indentity Word Glossary Flashcards

1
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Definition of abbreviation

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Coz from because word shortened

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Definition of cliches

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“That’s life” speaker will speak less in conversation

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Definition of colloquial idiom

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Phrases that characterise spoken language that don’t function in themselves like
In a minute

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4
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Definition of conversational speech

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Informal spoken language

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5
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Definition of courtesy terms

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Please thank you

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6
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Definition of covert prestige

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Status of those speakers who don’t own dialect

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Definition of deictics

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Words such as this that which refer backwards or forwards

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Definition of dialect

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Distinctive grammar which is accommodated with a Region

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9
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Definition of disgression

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Steer away from topic means your digress

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Defitnion of intonation

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Sound pattern of phrase and sentences produced

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11
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Defitnion of jargon

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Lanagauge especially the vocab

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Definition of lexicon

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The full vocab of a language or a group

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Definition of non fluency feature

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Normal characteristics of spoken language like filler, false start, repetition….

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Definition of non sequitur

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Lack of meaning to the comment it follows

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15
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Defitnion of neutral topic

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The weather

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Definition of phatic talk

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Conversational utterances that have no concrete purpose other than personal relationships how are you

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Defitnion of prosodic feature

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Stress, rhythm, pitch… used by speakers to mark out key meanings

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18
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Definition of supportive minimal vocalisation

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Second speaker utters minimal responses like mmmm or yeah

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19
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Definition of tag question

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Turn declarative into question

It’s cold isn’t it

20
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Defitnion of transactional talk

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Language to get things done or to transmit content

21
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Definition of transcript

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Written copy of discussion

22
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Definition of utterance

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An utterance is a complete unit of talk

23
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Defintion of vague language

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Statement which sound unasservatice like

Or whatever

24
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Definition of vocative terms

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Names nicknames titles or address

25
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Definition of repairs

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Alteration made by speaker in order to correct conversational contribution

26
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Definition of self related comments

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Comments that the speaker uses to focus on himself or herself

27
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Definition of hedges

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Weaken the force like

Perhaps or maybe

28
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Definition of incompleteness

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Sentence is not finished

29
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Defintion of interactional talk

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Language in conversation used for interpersonal reasons

30
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Defintion of elision

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Omission of one or more sounds

Like going to to gonna

31
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Defintion of fillers

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Don’t carry conventional meaning like er, um….

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Defintion of morphology

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Study of particular form, things or shapes

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Defintion of phonetics

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The study of classification or speech of sounds

34
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Defintion of cultural assumptions

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A person from a different country who may not understand the social meaning

35
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Defintion of amelioration

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Something is more positive

36
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Definition of pejoration

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Becomes more negative

37
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Defitnion of idiom

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Words established by usage as having a meaning

38
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Definition of audience construction

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Language is seen as a study of text to construct the audience by addressing them

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Defintion of marked terms

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Terms to describe job roles

40
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Definiton of mean length utterance

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Measure of productivity in children, utterance spoken by children then dividing the number

41
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Defintion of practical

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Physical Action

42
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Definition of knowledge and ideas

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Access to information and understanding the ability to influence people

43
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Definition of position

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Place in hierarchy

44
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Defintion of personal

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Individual personality

45
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Defintion of idolect

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Individual specific to one person

46
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Definition of socialect

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Group of people typical to group

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