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Connected Speech Processes

Phonology

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AVIE

  • Assimilation
    Handbag-> ’Hambag’
  • Vowel Reduction
    You-> ’Ya’
  • Insertion
    Hamster-> ’Hampster’
  • Elision
    Going to->Gonna
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Prosodic Features

Phonology

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VITSP

  • Volume
  • Intonation
  • Tempo
  • Stress
  • Pitch
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Phonological Patterning

Phonology

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AC ROAR

  • Assonance (Rhyme with vowels)
    List, kiss
  • Consonance (Rhyme with consonants)
    Ireland, England
  • Rhyme
    Time, lime
  • Onomatopoeia
    Woof
  • Alliteration
    Fat Philip
  • Rhythm
    Deliberate repeated use of intonation and stress
    Only use it when it’s very very obvious
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Morphological Patterning / Word Formation Processes

Morphology

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BBAAASICC

  • Blending
    Smoke and fog -> Smog
  • Backformation
    Editor->Edit
  • Affixation
  • Infix: Absofuckinglutely
  • Prefix: Pre-Proposal
  • Suffix: Girlfriendless
  • Abbreviation (?)
  • Acronym
    Pronounce it phonetically (AIDS)
    Note that it can be technical or playful depending on the context (SDS-PAGE Gel Electrophoresis vs LOL)
  • Shortening
    Examination->Exam, needs more clarification with the new study design
  • Initialism
    Pronounce each letter individually
    E.g. HIV
    Same note about how it can be technical or playful depending on the context
  • Contraction
  • Compounding
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Hypocoristic

Morphology

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  • Diminutives: Servo, souza, hazza, ambos, Gazza, etc
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Word Classes

Lexicology

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  • Nouns
  • Pronouns
  • Proper nouns
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Prepositions
  • Interjections
  • Determiners
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Word Formation

Lexicology

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  • Borrowings
  • Commonisations
  • Neologisms
  • Nominalisations
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Sentence Types

Syntax

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  • Interrogative
  • Declarative
  • Imperative
  • Exclamative
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Sentence Structure

Syntax

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  • Sentence fragments
  • Simple
  • Compound
  • Complex
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Phrases

Syntax

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  • Noun phrase
  • Verb phrase
  • Adverbial phrase
  • Adjectival phrase
  • Prepositional phrase
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Voice

Syntax

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  • Active voice
  • Passive voice
  • Agentless passive voice
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Paralinguistic features

Discourse and Pragmatics

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  • Laughter
  • Whispers
  • Coughing
  • Intake of breath
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Coherence

Discourse and Pragmatics

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FLICCC

  • Formatting
  • Logical ordering
  • Inference
  • Consistency and conventions
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Cohesion

Discourse and Pragmatics

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IF CARS CRASHED

  • Information Flow
  • Collocation
  • Adverbial
  • Repetition
  • Substitution
  • Conjunctions
  • Referencing
    • Anaphoric
    • Cataphoric
  • Ellipses
  • Deixis
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Speaker Role / Power Dynamic

Discourse

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  • Speaker Roles
    • Interviewer/Interviewee
    • Journalist/Speaker
  • Power Dynamic
    • Dominance (The influence they have on turn-taking and topic management)
    • Equal power dynamic
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Cooperativeness / Supportiveness

Discourse

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  • Overlapping speech
  • Minimal responses
  • Laughter
  • Positive face needs
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Spontaneity

Discourse

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  • Non-fluency features
  • Pause fillers
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Features of Spoken Discourse

Discourse

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CD MOAN

  • Closings
  • Discourse particles (like, so, well)
    • Introduce reported speech
    • Topic shift
    • Establish commonality
    • Hedging
  • Minimal responses / Backchanneling
  • Openings
  • Overlapping speech
  • Adjacency pairs
  • Non-fluency features
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Topic Management

Spoken Discourse Strategy

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  • Introduce a topic
  • Conclude a topic
  • Shift a topic
  • Develop a topic
  • Topic loop
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Turn Taking

Spoken Discourse Strategy

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  • Pass the floor
  • Hold the floor
  • Take the floor
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Politeness Strategies

Discourse

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  • Positive face needs (feeling a sense of belonging, to feel admired, to feel liked)
  • Negative face needs (wanting a sense of autonomy, a sense of freedom)
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Semantic Domain

Semantics

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  • A lexical set of words that are grouped by meaning
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Inference

Semantics

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  • Place names
  • Events
  • Only people within an ingroup or have experienced something would understand
  • Good for context ingroup membership
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Semantic Patterning

Semantics

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SALAMI POP + Figurative Language

  • Simile
  • Animation
  • Lexical ambiguity
  • Metaphor
  • Irony
  • Personification
  • Oxymoron
  • Pun
  • Figurative Language
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Lexical Meaning and Sense Relations

Semantics

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CASHH ID

  • Connotation
  • Antonymy
  • Synonymy
  • Hypermymy
  • Hyponymy
  • Idiom
  • Denotation
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Euphemism and Dysphemism

Semantics

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  • Euphemism, indirectly describe something
  • Dysphemism, describes something very explicitly
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Situational Context

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MFTTS

  • Mode
  • Field
  • Text type
  • Tenor
  • Setting

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