Indentity Word Glossary Flashcards

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Definition of abbreviation

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Coz from because word shortened

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Definition of cliches

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

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Definition of colloquial idiom

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

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Definition of conversational speech

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Informal spoken language

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Definition of courtesy terms

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Please thank you

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Definition of covert prestige

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Status of those speakers who don’t own dialect

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Definition of deictics

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Words such as this that which refer backwards or forwards

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Definition of dialect

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Distinctive grammar which is accommodated with a Region

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Definition of disgression

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Steer away from topic means your digress

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Defitnion of intonation

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Sound pattern of phrase and sentences produced

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Defitnion of jargon

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Lanagauge especially the vocab

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Definition of lexicon

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The full vocab of a language or a group

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Definition of non fluency feature

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

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Definition of non sequitur

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Lack of meaning to the comment it follows

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Defitnion of neutral topic

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The weather

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Definition of phatic talk

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

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Defitnion of prosodic feature

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

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Definition of supportive minimal vocalisation

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Second speaker utters minimal responses like mmmm or yeah

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Definition of tag question

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Turn declarative into question

It’s cold isn’t it

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Defitnion of transactional talk

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Language to get things done or to transmit content

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Definition of transcript

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Written copy of discussion

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Definition of utterance

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An utterance is a complete unit of talk

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Defintion of vague language

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Statement which sound unasservatice like

Or whatever

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Definition of vocative terms

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Names nicknames titles or address

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Definition of repairs
Alteration made by speaker in order to correct conversational contribution
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Definition of self related comments
Comments that the speaker uses to focus on himself or herself
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Definition of hedges
Weaken the force like | Perhaps or maybe
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Definition of incompleteness
Sentence is not finished
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Defintion of interactional talk
Language in conversation used for interpersonal reasons
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Defintion of elision
Omission of one or more sounds | Like going to to gonna
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Defintion of fillers
Don’t carry conventional meaning like er, um....
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Defintion of morphology
Study of particular form, things or shapes
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Defintion of phonetics
The study of classification or speech of sounds
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Defintion of cultural assumptions
A person from a different country who may not understand the social meaning
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Defintion of amelioration
Something is more positive
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Definition of pejoration
Becomes more negative
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Defitnion of idiom
Words established by usage as having a meaning
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Definition of audience construction
Language is seen as a study of text to construct the audience by addressing them
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Defintion of marked terms
Terms to describe job roles
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Definiton of mean length utterance
Measure of productivity in children, utterance spoken by children then dividing the number
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Defintion of practical
Physical Action
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Definition of knowledge and ideas
Access to information and understanding the ability to influence people
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Definition of position
Place in hierarchy
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Defintion of personal
Individual personality
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Defintion of idolect
Individual specific to one person
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Definition of socialect
Group of people typical to group