Spoken mode Flashcards
(23 cards)
What are 4 characteristics of speech?
Interactive
Loosely structured
Informal
Contextualised
What is phatic language?
Language that’s used to start a conversation, greet or say bye rather than giving info - small talk
What are adjacency pairs?
Phrases expected together
How are you?” is mostly commonly followed by “I’m doing well
What is back channeling?
feedback given while someone else is talking, to show interest, attention and/or a willingness to keep listening.
What is discourse markers?
What are tag questions?
short questions added to the end of a statement to elicit a response
What are false starts?
Where the speaker begins to speak, stops then starts again
What are overlaps?
Simultaneous speech- can either be cooperative or competitive
What is a filler?
Non- verbal sound to act like a pause to signal uncertainty or a simple pause
Eg) err, erm
What is a repair?
Where the speaker self corrects a grammatical mistake, wrong word or innapropriate comment
Eg) well was. Were going out
Eg) I hope England lose. Win I mean
What is a skip connector?
A word or phrase that returns the conversation back to the previous topic
Eg) anyway, back o our disscussion
What is an ellipsis?
Purposely missing out words
Eg) what do you want to eat? Ham sandwich
What is speaker support?
Words that encourage the speaker to carry on talking
Eg) mm, yeah, ok
What is elision?
Merging 2 words together (gimme)
What are prosodic features?
Tone, stress and volume
What is an example of vague language?
Like, sort of
What is Dexis?
Words that only make sense in context
What is phatic talk?
small talk
What’s interactional language?
lang used to build and maintain relationships in social interactions, rather than to convey specific information
What is colloquial language?
slang
(Gang)
What is hedging?
using vague language
What are pragmatics?
How context influences meaning
‘I’m drowning’
Literally drowning or drowning in work?
What was the exchange, structure theory by Sinclair 1975
He studied school classrooms interactions and all language had same structure of;
Opening remark
Eg) right then
- Initiating move (start conversation)
- Response
- teacher feedback/comment
This theory can be applied to many convos not just classroom discourse
