Concepts Week 11

Question 1

Trudgill 2003 Interactional sociolinguistics

Answer 1

“IS assumes that language as it is used
in social interaction is constitutive of
social relationships i.e. speakers and
listeners use language to maintain,
develop, alter, refine and define social
relationships.”

Question 2

What are the approaches to interaction?

Answer 2

• Ethnomethodology
• Conversation analysis
• Ethnography of speaking
• Interactional sociolinguistics
• Linguistic ethnography

Question 3

Speaking model S

Answer 3

Setting and scene (where and when?)

Question 4

Speaking model P

Answer 4

Participants (The characteristics of interlocutors)

Question 5

Speaking model E

Answer 5

Ends (The purpose or reason for talk)

Question 6

Speaking model A

Answer 6

Act sequence (the ordering of turns)

Question 7

Speaking model K

Answer 7

Key (tone, manner, spirit)

Question 8

Speaking model I

Answer 8

Instrumentalities (forms of speech)

Question 9

Speaking model N

Answer 9

Norms (shared cultural knowledge)

Question 10

Speaking model G

Answer 10

Genre (type of event)

Question 11

Members categories

Answer 11

A model by Gumperz 1982 , the intentions of the speakers

Question 12

Purpose of contextualisation cues

Answer 12

• To signal what the activity is
• To interpret what the activity is
• Habitually used and recognised
• Rarely noticed and discussed