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5 questions for analysing situational context?
Function, field, mode, setting and relationship between participants
what are the 6 types of functions
Conative, Referential, Phatic, Poetic, Emotive and Metalinguistic
What are the 4 Social purposes?
Encourage intimacy, solidarity and equality, Maintain positive and negative face needs, promote linguistic innovation and support in-group membership
what are the six discourse features?
openings and closings, adjacency pairs, interrogative tag, overlapping speech, discourse particles, non-fluency features
What is accountable silence?
Silence for a reason
What is a terminal exchange?
Stopping a conversation without room for argument
What is a pre-closing?
Indicates you want to end a conversation, also can happen at topic boundaries
What’s the difference between social purposes and purposes?
Social purposes require the specific terminology
What does alternative pair parts mean?
Unexpected but still acceptable
features of overlapping speech
Non fluency feature, anticipates words, turns can occur and disfluency so another party can take over
what’s the difference between discourse particles and fillers?
discourse particles have a function
what are the 5 discourse functions
Start a convo
Mark topic boundary
soften response or reaction
emphasise next statement
indicate understanding
The 4 main reasons for Non fluency features
Thinking time, Unpreparedness/Spontaneity,Uncertainty or nerves, lack of knowledge or understanding.
3 main reasons for thinking time
Negotiate sensitive/taboo topics, avoid face threatening acts and thinking what to say
What are the 3 discourse strategies?
Topic management, turn taking and minimal responses
what are the four main ways of topic management?
Topic change, topic loop, topic shift and topic avoidance.
What are the four connected speech processes?
Assimilation, Vowel reduction, Elision and insertion.
Assimilation
Sound changing to sound more like neighbouring sounds
Elision
Removal of a vowel
Vowel Reduction
Vowel becomes a schwa
Insertion
Addition of a sound that doesn’t belong
Main features of syntax?
Sentence structure, Sentence types and sentence functions
fragmented sentence?
Not really a sentence
Simple sentence?
One verb and one subject
Compound sentence?
2 sentences connected by a FANBOYS
Complex sentence?
2 sentences connected by anything other than a FANBOYS
elipses?
Removal of words
Coordination?
For compound sentences
Suboordination?
For complex sentences
What are the main 6 morphological features?
Blend, acronym, shortening, compounding, contraction, neologism.
semantic/lexical features?
Slang, Elipses, shortenings, pun, idioms, metaphors, similies
