Spoken Discourse Flashcards
Openings and closes
the way we start and end a conversation
Greetings, salutations (how are you?), vocatives (names and nicknames)
Adjacency pairs
spoken discourse that relate to each other.
Eg; questions and answers
Minimal responses and Backchanneling
sounds and words that let us show our encouragement and support for the speaker. Do it through vocal effects or words
(do you understand? yes)
Overlapping speech
Talking over the top of each other
Cooperative - agrees, backchanneling - paying attention and listen
Competitive - jumping in and interrupting
Can be friendly or not either or
Discourse markers / particles
The little filler we insert in our speech for a particular purpose
Just , sorry, i understand, Like, hedge - “could you just like stop”
Non fluency features
Pausing for effect (stylistic , intentional) or pausing to think
Filled pause , voiced hesitation - uhh, ahhh, like, ohh, umm,
False starts - literally you start and then restart
Repetition - repeat yourself
Repairs - say something, realise its wrong and fix it
Strategies in Spoken Discourse
Topic Management
Turn taking
Management of repair sequences
Code Switching
Topic Management
Relates to what we are talking about
Who controls the conversation
How we control what the convo is about
Turn taking
Participants throughout a conversation
Swapping who speaks
Take the floor
Politely or competitively
Hold the floor - filled pauses to show you’re not done
Pass the floor
Management of repair sequences
How to repair a conversation when the wrong thing is said
Who is repairing the mistaken word
Code Switching
Speaker switches 2 or more languages in a single interaction
