Indentity Word Glossary

Question 1

Definition of abbreviation

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Coz from because word shortened

Question 2

Definition of cliches

Answer 2

“That’s life” speaker will speak less in conversation

Question 3

Definition of colloquial idiom

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Phrases that characterise spoken language that don’t function in themselves like
In a minute

Question 4

Definition of conversational speech

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Informal spoken language

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Definition of courtesy terms

Answer 5

Please thank you

Question 6

Definition of covert prestige

Answer 6

Status of those speakers who don’t own dialect

Question 7

Definition of deictics

Answer 7

Words such as this that which refer backwards or forwards

Question 8

Definition of dialect

Answer 8

Distinctive grammar which is accommodated with a Region

Question 9

Definition of disgression

Answer 9

Steer away from topic means your digress

Question 10

Defitnion of intonation

Answer 10

Sound pattern of phrase and sentences produced

Question 11

Defitnion of jargon

Answer 11

Lanagauge especially the vocab

Question 12

Definition of lexicon

Answer 12

The full vocab of a language or a group

Question 13

Definition of non fluency feature

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Normal characteristics of spoken language like filler, false start, repetition….

Question 14

Definition of non sequitur

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Lack of meaning to the comment it follows

Question 15

Defitnion of neutral topic

Answer 15

The weather

Question 16

Definition of phatic talk

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Conversational utterances that have no concrete purpose other than personal relationships how are you

Question 17

Defitnion of prosodic feature

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Stress, rhythm, pitch… used by speakers to mark out key meanings

Question 18

Definition of supportive minimal vocalisation

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Second speaker utters minimal responses like mmmm or yeah

Question 19

Definition of tag question

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Turn declarative into question

It’s cold isn’t it

Question 20

Defitnion of transactional talk

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Language to get things done or to transmit content

Question 21

Definition of transcript

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Written copy of discussion

Question 22

Definition of utterance

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An utterance is a complete unit of talk

Question 23

Defintion of vague language

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Statement which sound unasservatice like

Or whatever

Question 24

Definition of vocative terms

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Names nicknames titles or address

Question 25

Definition of repairs

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Alteration made by speaker in order to correct conversational contribution

Question 26

Definition of self related comments

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Comments that the speaker uses to focus on himself or herself

Question 27

Definition of hedges

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Weaken the force like

Perhaps or maybe

Question 28

Definition of incompleteness

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Sentence is not finished

Question 29

Defintion of interactional talk

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Language in conversation used for interpersonal reasons

Question 30

Defintion of elision

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Omission of one or more sounds

Like going to to gonna

Question 31

Defintion of fillers

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Don’t carry conventional meaning like er, um….

Question 32

Defintion of morphology

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Study of particular form, things or shapes

Question 33

Defintion of phonetics

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The study of classification or speech of sounds

Question 34

Defintion of cultural assumptions

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A person from a different country who may not understand the social meaning

Question 35

Defintion of amelioration

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Something is more positive

Question 36

Definition of pejoration

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Becomes more negative

Question 37

Defitnion of idiom

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Words established by usage as having a meaning

Question 38

Definition of audience construction

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Language is seen as a study of text to construct the audience by addressing them

Question 39

Defintion of marked terms

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Terms to describe job roles

Question 40

Definiton of mean length utterance

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Measure of productivity in children, utterance spoken by children then dividing the number

Question 41

Defintion of practical

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Physical Action

Question 42

Definition of knowledge and ideas

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Access to information and understanding the ability to influence people

Question 43

Definition of position

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Place in hierarchy

Question 44

Defintion of personal

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Individual personality

Question 45

Defintion of idolect

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Individual specific to one person

Question 46

Definition of socialect

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Group of people typical to group