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Question 1

5 questions for analysing situational context?

Answer 1

Function, field, mode, setting and relationship between participants

Question 2

what are the 6 types of functions

Answer 2

Conative, Referential, Phatic, Poetic, Emotive and Metalinguistic

Question 3

What are the 4 Social purposes?

Answer 3

Encourage intimacy, solidarity and equality, Maintain positive and negative face needs, promote linguistic innovation and support in-group membership

Question 4

what are the six discourse features?

Answer 4

openings and closings, adjacency pairs, interrogative tag, overlapping speech, discourse particles, non-fluency features

Question 5

What is accountable silence?

Answer 5

Silence for a reason

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What is a terminal exchange?

Answer 6

Stopping a conversation without room for argument

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What is a pre-closing?

Answer 7

Indicates you want to end a conversation, also can happen at topic boundaries

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What’s the difference between social purposes and purposes?

Answer 8

Social purposes require the specific terminology

Question 9

What does alternative pair parts mean?

Answer 9

Unexpected but still acceptable

Question 10

features of overlapping speech

Answer 10

Non fluency feature, anticipates words, turns can occur and disfluency so another party can take over

Question 11

what’s the difference between discourse particles and fillers?

Answer 11

discourse particles have a function

Question 12

what are the 5 discourse functions

Answer 12

Start a convo
Mark topic boundary
soften response or reaction
emphasise next statement
indicate understanding

Question 13

The 4 main reasons for Non fluency features

Answer 13

Thinking time, Unpreparedness/Spontaneity,Uncertainty or nerves, lack of knowledge or understanding.

Question 14

3 main reasons for thinking time

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Negotiate sensitive/taboo topics, avoid face threatening acts and thinking what to say

Question 15

What are the 3 discourse strategies?

Answer 15

Topic management, turn taking and minimal responses

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what are the four main ways of topic management?

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Topic change, topic loop, topic shift and topic avoidance.

Question 17

What are the four connected speech processes?

Answer 17

Assimilation, Vowel reduction, Elision and insertion.

Question 18

Assimilation

Answer 18

Sound changing to sound more like neighbouring sounds

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Elision

Answer 19

Removal of a vowel

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Vowel Reduction

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Vowel becomes a schwa

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Insertion

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Addition of a sound that doesn’t belong

Question 22

Main features of syntax?

Answer 22

Sentence structure, Sentence types and sentence functions

Question 23

fragmented sentence?

Answer 23

Not really a sentence

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Simple sentence?

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One verb and one subject

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Compound sentence?

Answer 25

2 sentences connected by a FANBOYS

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Complex sentence?

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2 sentences connected by anything other than a FANBOYS

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elipses?

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Removal of words

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Coordination?

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For compound sentences

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Suboordination?

Answer 29

For complex sentences

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What are the main 6 morphological features?

Answer 30

Blend, acronym, shortening, compounding, contraction, neologism.

Question 31

semantic/lexical features?

Answer 31

Slang, Elipses, shortenings, pun, idioms, metaphors, similies