Paris Flashcards
Adjacency pair
‘How are you?’
‘Good thanks’.
Linked utterances- greeting/ question and answer.
Part exchange
Linked utterances
Question/ answer/ feedback
Backchannel
Feedback offered (minimal responses/nods/laughter).
May be given as support.
May be given as support.
Minimal response
Brief responses
Mhm, yeah, hmm
Open question
A question which elicits a longer response.
‘So what do you think’?
Closed question
A question which elicits a yes or no response.
‘Did you finish your work?’
Tag question
‘We can do it, can’t we?’
Motivation, get people to agree with you.
Interruption
When one person stops another from speaking mid-utterance to take their turn.
Considered rude but may be acceptable when they’re saying something offensive to you or false.
Overlap
Simultaneous speech- usually more supportive than interruption.
‘Did you?’
‘Really?’
Supports what person is saying.
Latch
Utterances by different speakers which follow directly on without pause.
Holding the floor.
When one speaker takes a longer turn.
Personal anecdote/ lecturer.
Pseudo agreement
When a speaker softens their disagreement by initially seeming to agree.
‘Yes I see what you mean but I actually think…’
More polite than simply disagreeing.
Hesitation types
(.) short
(1) long
(2) longer
Text types
Spontaneous speech
Photographic journal
Memoir
‘Neither here nor there’ text type audience and purpose.
Text type: Memoir: personal experiences shown by first person singular pronouns ‘i’.
Audience: English reformers or mainstreamers: proper nouns ‘Louvre’, ‘Mona Lisa’.
Purpose: intended to entertain and humour the reader: hyperbole ‘the people of Paris want me dead’