Analysis Of Spoken Language Flashcards
What are the functions of speech?
Transactional- to achieve something
Referential- provides listener with information
Interactional- to establish relationships
Phatic- small talk for social purposes
Expressive- highlights the speakers emotions, feelings and attitudes
Label the prosodic features
Stress- emphasise a word Intonation- pitch Tempo- pace Volume- loudness Accent- way words are pronounced according to geographical region
Label non fluency features
Fillers- um Hedging- well... Unintentional repetition Pauses- natural pause False start Repair- corrects something they’ve said
Structure- then taking. Label the features of turn taking
Adjacency pairs Overlap Interruption Questions- open/closed/tag Speaker select Discourse marker Back channelling
Label the Lexis features
Slang Colloquialism Contraction (omission of a letter) Elision (merging two words) Cliche Deixis
Grammar features
Ellipsis (omission of words)
Non standard grammar
What is the accommodation theory?
Individuals will converge (speech moves closer to the other person) or diverge (move further apart) to decrease or increase social distance. Some speakers will mutually diverge/converge
What is intertextuality
Texts choose to use conventions from a different genre
Label the nouns
Proper noun: use of capital letters
Common noun: whole class of things ‘house’
Abstract noun: can’t be seen or touched
Concrete: physical thing ‘pig’
Label the adjectives
Base: basic form
Comparative: comparison made
Superlative: the optimum quality of more than 3 things
Label the adverbs
Manner
Time
Place
Frequency
Label the verbs
Auxiliary- shows the difference between singular, plural, past and present
Modal auxiliary- reflect judgement or mood
Dynamic: express a physical action or event
Stative: express a state of being
Label modality features
Epistemic: modals which express degrees of possibility, certainly or probability ‘he might be there’
Deontic: concerned with degrees of obligation, permission, ability and necessity ‘you can go’
What are the personal pronouns
1st- ‘us , me, i’
2nd- ‘he, you’
3rd- ‘they’
