Spoken Language Features

Question 1

Interactional talk

Answer 1

Language in conversation used for socialising

Question 2

Non-fluency features

Answer 2

Interrupt the flow of talk e.g. Hesitations, false starts

Question 3

Repairs

Answer 3

Correcting your self after making a mistake

Question 4

Transactional talk

Answer 4

Used when exchanging goods

Question 5

Utterance

Answer 5

Anything you say, which someone listens to

Question 6

Vague language

Answer 6

Statements that sound imprecise e.g. Whatever, whatsit

Question 7

Adjacency pairs

Answer 7

When you’re speaking and take turns e.g. How are you? Fine thanks

Question 8

Back-channel

Answer 8

Used by a listener to give feedback to the speaker e.g. Really, oh

Question 9

Deixis

Answer 9

Verbal pointing e.g. There, that

Question 10

Discourse maker

Answer 10

Used to make connections between speaker and listener e.g. First, on the other hand

Question 11

Filler

Answer 11

Words that don’t have a meaning, but are use to allow time to think e.g. Er, um

Question 12

Hedge

Answer 12

Words and phrases that are spoken softly e.g. Perhaps, maybe

Question 13

Idiolect

Answer 13

A typically way an individual speaks

Question 14

Prosody

Answer 14

Pitch, volume, pace

Question 15

Phatic language

Answer 15

Small talk

Question 16

Paralinguistic features

Answer 16

Body language

Question 17

Pausing

Answer 17

The way we punctuate speech