informal features Flashcards
connected speech processes
elision (sounds)
vowel reduction
flapping (voiceless -> voiced)
assimilation
insertion
morphological patterning- diminutive endings
indicate a friendly, laidback attitude (informal/colloquial)
change to a vowel sound
morphological patterning- reduplication
rhyming patterning eg argy bargy, okey dokey
positive face
need to be liked, admired, validated, respected, part of in-group.
eg use of expletives to build rapport & sense of closeness
eg teenspeak
negative face
acknowledges a participants want to be autonomous, free and independent. reinforces social distance, hieracies, authority
eg overt politeness strategies (would you mind = softens)
features of spoken discourse
IDOONA
interrogative tags
discourse particles
openings and closings
overlapping speech
non fluency features (spontaneity)
adjacency pairs
strategies of spoken discourse
TTFM
topic management
turn taking (taking, holding, passing floor)
minimal responses
phonology
alliteration,
consonance
assonance
rhyme
onomatopoea
descriptive verbs
NS orthography to represent connected speech processes
morphology and lexicology
diminutive endings
shortenings
initialisms/acronyms
reduplication
blends
colloquialisms
syntax
fragments + ellipsis
double negation
double comparative
semantics
idioms
puns, wordplay
dysphemisms
discourse
NS orthography
NS capitalisation
prosodic features
volume
intonation
pitch
stress
tempo
