Spoken discourse strategies and features

Question 1

IDOONA

Answer 1

interogative tags
discourse particles
openings + closings
overlaps
non-fluency features
Adjacency pairs

Question 2

TTFM

Answer 2

turn-taking
topic management
minimal responses/backchanelling
floor management

Question 3

openings

Answer 3

ritualistic + expected
conventional
protocols/scripted

Question 4

adjacency pairs

Answer 4

2/3 part exchange
Q/A
offer/refusal/acceptance/ statement + acknowledgement
reflects particular roles in discourse

Question 5

turn taking

Answer 5

rising and/or falling intonation/pitch
body language- gestures, posture, gaze
direct signals:vocative interrogative tags
cooperative + collaborative

Question 6

taking the floor

Answer 6

volume increase
stress
intake breath
disc part
vocative
vocal effect
overlap

Question 7

topic management

Answer 7

signal changes in topic
eg.” that reminds me “ “ by the way”
disc marker
puases
(H) intake of breath
sentence types
topic loop(get back to previous topic)

Question 8

holding the floor

Answer 8

fillers, voiced hesitation
prosodics
elongation of sound
slower/faster pace
increase intonation
volume
parataxis=use of coordinating conj to glue phrase+ clause together hence no-one interrupts.

Question 9

non-fluency

Answer 9

pause
repetition
false start
running repair
fillers/voiced hes

Question 10

backchannelling( usually as minimal response)

Answer 10

brief utterances
“yep” “right” I know “
–>encouragement, agreement
–> +ve face b/c active listen=feel appreciated + valued

Question 11

interrogative tag

Answer 11

must be syntactically the same as interrogative or else = pragmatic/ discourse tag.