Spoken mode Flashcards
What are 4 characteristics of speech?
Interactive
Loosely structured
Informal
Contextualised
What are the 3 conversational genres?
Transactional
Interpersonal
Phatic
What is transnational language?
Involves the transaction of giving or receiving
What is interpersonal language?
Used to socialise between 2 or more people, exchanging info
What is phatic language?
Language that’s used to start a conversation, greet or say bye rather than giving info - small talk
What is a filler?
Non- verbal sound to act like a pause to signal uncertainty or a simple pause
Eg) err, erm
What is a false start?
Where the speaker begins to speak, stops then starts again
Eg) well I was, well I was going to the shops
What is a repair?
Where the speaker self corrects a grammatical mistake, wrong word or innapropriate comment
Eg) well was. Were going out
Eg) I hope England lose. Win I mean
What is a skip connector?
A word or phrase that returns the conversation back to the previous topic
Eg) anyway, back o our disscussion
What is an ellipsis?
Purposely missing out words
Eg) what do you want to eat? Ham sandwich
What is speaker support?
Words that encourage the speaker to carry on talking
Eg) mm, yeah, ok
What was the exchange, structure theory by Sinclair 1975
He studied school classrooms interactions and all language had same structure of;
Opening remark
Eg) right then
- Initiating move (start conversation)
- Response
- teacher feedback/comment
This theory can be applied to many convos not just classroom discourse
What is dialect?
Words change based on where your from
What is elision?
Merging 2 words together (gimme)
What are prosodic features?
Tone, stress and volume
