Discourse & Features Flashcards
Discourse event
An act of communications
Discourse community
A group of people trying to achieve common goals through intercommunication - often with specific socioletric markers
Features of a spoken discourse:
Utterance
Insertion sequence
Filler
Voice filled pause
False start
Repair
Skip connector
Speaker support
Utterance
A unit of speech i.e interrogative utterance
Insertion sequence
An additional sequence between the two parts of the adjacency pair
Filler
Words that are used to give thinking time, such as: like, you know
Voice filled pause
Sounds that are used to give thinking time e.g. er, urm
False start
This is wh (.) this is (.) when a speaker
Repair
Correction of speech or mistake within utterance
Skip connector
A word or phrase that returns a conversation to previous topic
Speaker support
Shows the listener is interested e.g. yeah
