Discourse

Question 1

What is Discourse?

Answer 1

The subsystem concerning the sequence of languages that is longer than a sentence.

Question 2

What are paralinguistic features?

Answer 2

Features used in spoken texts that are marginal to speech, for example, facial expression, body gestures, body language, eye gaze.

Question 3

What is Code-switching

Answer 3

The practise of alternating between two or more languages or dialects in conversion.

Question 4

What is an Intelerlocutor

Answer 4

A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.

Question 5

Prosodic features

Answer 5

Stress, pitch, intonation, tempo, volume

Question 6

What are openings and closings?

Answer 6

Salutations: ‘Hi’ , ‘Hey’ , ‘Good morning’
Vocatives: ‘Sally’ , ‘Ladies and gentlemen’ , ‘Mum’ , ‘Darling’
Phatic question: ‘How are you?’ , ‘Nice day isn’t it?’

Question 7

What are the adjacency pairs?

Answer 7

They are adjacent turns in spoken discourse that relate to each other, such as questions and answers.
Example: a) ‘Hi Julie, how are you?’
b) ‘Great thanks yourself?’
or
a) ‘Thank you so much for helping me today.’
b) ‘My pleasure, I enjoyed it.’

Question 8

What are Interrogative tags

Answer 8

Little ‘tags’ we put at the end of a statement to turn it into a question.
Example: A) So you’ll be back on Friday, “will you”?
B) Yes, I’ll be back by three o’clock
or
A) She can’t do that, “can she”?
B) You bet she can!

Question 9

What are hedges?

Answer 9

Little expressions and words that reduce the force of what we’re saying so that we are able to express uncertainty or modesty, thus creating a more friendly utterance.
Example: ‘sort of’ , ‘kind of’ , ‘I think’ , ‘a bit’ , ‘just’