grammar of spoken language

Question 1

lexis

Answer 1

the word choice

Question 2

backchannel behaviour

Answer 2

noises made by the listener while someone speaks (yeah,ok,mm)

Question 3

marker of sympathetic circularity + tag questions

Answer 3

function of checking someone is ‘still with you’ - ‘right?’ , ‘aren’t you?’

Question 4

purposefully vague language

Answer 4

‘sort of’ , ‘kind of’ , ‘stuff like that’

Question 5

discourse markers

Answer 5

words and phrases used to mark boundaries in conversation between topics, ‘anyway’

Question 6

ellipsis

Answer 6

speaker leaves out some parts of the full structure as they assume the listener understands

Question 7

modal expression

Answer 7

words and phrases that indicate the attitude of the speaker towards the situation they are describing, ‘i suppose’, ‘sort of’, ‘whatever’

Question 8

phonology

Answer 8

sounds of language

Question 9

phoneme

Answer 9

distinctive sound within language

Question 10

graphology

Answer 10

visual marks on the page

Question 11

grapheme

Answer 11

smallest unit of written language

Question 12

morphology

Answer 12

word structure

Question 13

morpheme

Answer 13

smallest unit of meaning

Question 14

discourse

Answer 14

structure of text

Question 15

mode

Answer 15

the way language is transmitted from person to person

Question 16

field

Answer 16

the topic or subject matter

Question 17

function

Answer 17

the purpose of the text

Question 18

audience

Answer 18

relationship and relative status of the writer and audience

Question 19

heteronyms

Answer 19

same graphemes, different phonemes

Question 20

homophone

Answer 20

a word that has two or more spellings that sound the same

Question 21

jargon

Answer 21

words related to a specific field

Question 22

subject specific lexis

Answer 22

words related to the subject

Question 23

semantic field

Answer 23

words related to meaning but not directly linked to main topic