Spoken Language Vocab

Question 1

Speaker identity

Answer 1

identification of a person from the sound of their voice, use of lexis, grammatical structures. Age, gender, class, ethnicity, and occupation…

Question 2

Situational factors

Answer 2

relationship with the audience, status of the participants, setting, topic, purpose, comfort, spontaneous vs crafted.

Question 3

Paralinguistic features

Answer 3

body language, gestures, facial expressions, tone and pitch of voice.