Ms Hall Keywords

Question 1

Fillers (features of spoken language)

Answer 1

Words and expressions that have little meaning but are inserted into everyday speech.
E.g ‘like’
‘Sort of’

Question 2

Filled Pauses (features of spoken language)

Answer 2

Hesitations such as ‘um’ and ‘er’. If a pause is silent, it is an unvoiced pause

Question 3

Repetitions (features of spoken language)

Answer 3

Either of single words, or or several words at a time

Question 4

False Starts (features of spoken language)

Answer 4

Changing from one grammatical construction to another > interrupted constructions

Question 5

Phatic Expressions (features of spoken language)

Answer 5

Generally found only in spec. Small talk. “How’s things?”

Question 6

Deictic Expressions (features of spoken language)

Answer 6

Expressions that can not be understood unless the context of the utterance is known.
E.g pronouns, time, place

Question 7

Spontaneous Speech (features of spoken language)

Answer 7

Not arranged into nearly separated sentences. Structure is much looser, and can be difficult to determine where one construction ends and another begins.

Question 8

Disjointed Constructions (features of spoken language)

Answer 8

‘False starts.’

E.g ‘he knows about computers-how to fix them’

Question 9

Incomplete Constructions (features of spoken language)

Answer 9

Occur in conversation but are also a notable feature in sports commentaries
E.g ‘Beckham to Owen’