Discourse & non-fluency terminology

Question 1

fillers

Answer 1

sounds to fill spaces between utterances

Question 2

pauses

Answer 2

pauses between utterances, for thinking time

Question 3

hedges

Answer 3

tentative language

Question 4

false start

Answer 4

utterance is started but left incomplete

Question 5

self correction/repair

Answer 5

when a speaker stops utterance and rephrases

Question 6

adjacency pairs

Answer 6

talking in pairs/ taking turns

Question 7

neutral comment

Answer 7

comment on something neutral in surroundings

Question 8

opener & closer

Answer 8

expressions/discourse markers that open or close a conversation

Question 9

topic management

Answer 9

the organisation of topics, can move from speaker to speaker

Question 10

framing

Answer 10

process of controlling the conversation

Question 11

insertion sequence

Answer 11

intervening utterances that can come between adjacency pairs

Question 12

tag question

Answer 12

tentative question asked at end of declaratives

Question 13

preferred/dispreferred responses

Answer 13

question complimented by an answer is preferred, not to answer or inappropriately respond is dispreferred

Question 14

agenda setting

Answer 14

initial establishment of topic

Question 15

self-related comment

Answer 15

comment about self

Question 16

other related comment

Answer 16

comment about someone else

Question 17

phatic communication

Answer 17

designed to maintain social relationships

Question 18

back channelling

Answer 18

supportive, short language