Language and power linguistic techniques - examples Flashcards by Emily Wilson | Brainscape

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Prosodic Features

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Speaking loudly, quickly, emphatically

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Paralinguistic features

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The speaker frowns, smiles, points at something

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Repair

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I’m going to the bal, Vanilla cafe

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Tag question

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You’re Helen aren’t you

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Dialect

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Stop squinnying!

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Discourse marker

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Anyway, so

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Deixis/Deictic language

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This one here

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Hedge

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I hope you don’t mind me saying

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Vague language

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Whatever, sort of, like

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Elision

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Gonna, hafter, wanna

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False start

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Wha (.) that book is mine

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Phatic language

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Hi. How are you?

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Ellipsis

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Want to go to the cafe?

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Adjacency pair

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What’s the time? Half past 3

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Colloquial language

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Cool, wicked

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