discourse

Question 1

features of spoken discourse

Answer 1

[IDOONA]
openings and closings; adjacency pairs; overlapping speech; interrogative tags; discourse particles; non fluency features

Question 2

openings

Answer 2

deliberate beginning of a spoken discourse, often relates to conventions eg ‘let me start by welcoming…’
often ritualistic and expected

Question 3

adjacency pairs

Answer 3

pairs of utterances that require turn taking where the first utterance prompts a response eg question+answer ‘can I borrow your book? - yes sure’

Question 4

non fluency features

Answer 4

pauses, filled pauses/voiced hesitations, false starts, repetition, repairs

Question 5

topic management

Answer 5

involves devices used by speakers to maintain or alter the subject or (part of) a discourse. eg may use interrogative, minimal responses or back channelling, discourse markers, declaratives

Question 6

turn taking

Answer 6

incl. taking, holding, passing the floor in spoken discourse. can be achieved through many strategies eg pauses, voices hesitations, vocatives, interrogatives, intonation

Question 7

minimal responses/back-channelling

Answer 7

brief utterances in spoken discourse to signal understanding, engagement, encouragement and/or agreement eg yep, aha, good, yeah

Question 8

strategies to take the floor

Answer 8

increased volume
stress
intake of breath
discourse particles/markers
vocatives
vocal effects
overlap

Question 9

strategies to hold the floor

Answer 9

voiced hesitations
prosodics
linking elements eg parataxis(coordination ‘and, then, another…’)
pauses

Question 10

strategies in spoken discourse

Answer 10

[TTFM]

topic management, turn taking (holding, passing, taking the floor), minimal responses/backchannelling