Indentity Word Glossary Flashcards
Definition of abbreviation
Coz from because word shortened
Definition of cliches
“That’s life” speaker will speak less in conversation
Definition of colloquial idiom
Phrases that characterise spoken language that don’t function in themselves like
In a minute
Definition of conversational speech
Informal spoken language
Definition of courtesy terms
Please thank you
Definition of covert prestige
Status of those speakers who don’t own dialect
Definition of deictics
Words such as this that which refer backwards or forwards
Definition of dialect
Distinctive grammar which is accommodated with a Region
Definition of disgression
Steer away from topic means your digress
Defitnion of intonation
Sound pattern of phrase and sentences produced
Defitnion of jargon
Lanagauge especially the vocab
Definition of lexicon
The full vocab of a language or a group
Definition of non fluency feature
Normal characteristics of spoken language like filler, false start, repetition….
Definition of non sequitur
Lack of meaning to the comment it follows
Defitnion of neutral topic
The weather
Definition of phatic talk
Conversational utterances that have no concrete purpose other than personal relationships how are you
Defitnion of prosodic feature
Stress, rhythm, pitch… used by speakers to mark out key meanings
Definition of supportive minimal vocalisation
Second speaker utters minimal responses like mmmm or yeah
Definition of tag question
Turn declarative into question
It’s cold isn’t it
Defitnion of transactional talk
Language to get things done or to transmit content
Definition of transcript
Written copy of discussion
Definition of utterance
An utterance is a complete unit of talk
Defintion of vague language
Statement which sound unasservatice like
Or whatever
Definition of vocative terms
Names nicknames titles or address
Definition of repairs
Alteration made by speaker in order to correct conversational contribution
Definition of self related comments
Comments that the speaker uses to focus on himself or herself
Definition of hedges
Weaken the force like
Perhaps or maybe
Definition of incompleteness
Sentence is not finished
Defintion of interactional talk
Language in conversation used for interpersonal reasons
Defintion of elision
Omission of one or more sounds
Like going to to gonna
Defintion of fillers
Don’t carry conventional meaning like er, um….
Defintion of morphology
Study of particular form, things or shapes
Defintion of phonetics
The study of classification or speech of sounds
Defintion of cultural assumptions
A person from a different country who may not understand the social meaning
Defintion of amelioration
Something is more positive
Definition of pejoration
Becomes more negative
Defitnion of idiom
Words established by usage as having a meaning
Definition of audience construction
Language is seen as a study of text to construct the audience by addressing them
Defintion of marked terms
Terms to describe job roles
Definiton of mean length utterance
Measure of productivity in children, utterance spoken by children then dividing the number
Defintion of practical
Physical Action
Definition of knowledge and ideas
Access to information and understanding the ability to influence people
Definition of position
Place in hierarchy
Defintion of personal
Individual personality
Defintion of idolect
Individual specific to one person
Definition of socialect
Group of people typical to group
