Spoken language Flashcards
Accent
The ways in which words are pronounced
adjacency pairs
Pairs that are used ritualistically
Back channel
used by the listener to give feedback (i see, oh, uh huh,really)
contraction
A reduced form of a word
Deixis
A verbal pointing
dialect
regional or social use
Discourse marker
A sign that what is said can be followed by the listener or reader
Elison
Gonna-going to
Ellipsis
The getting rid of a grammatical structure.
False starts
This is when they start speaking and then they either repeats or reformulates it
Filler
Inserted in speech to allow time to think and creates a pause (erm)
Maxim of quantity
Don’t say too much or too little
maxim of relevance
Do not say anything that is not related to the subject
Hedge
words or phrases that weaken or soften the force something is said
Idiolect
An individually distinctive style of speaking
Paralinguistic features
Speaking to an individual non verbally.
Phatic talk
Small talk
Pragmatics
sppech that focuses more on context and purpose
prosodic features
How something is said
Repairs
An alteration to what someone has just said
Sociolect
A way of speaking by a particular group
Tag question
Turns a statement into a question
turn taking
The arrangement of the conversation
