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U3AOS1 Flashcards

Informal Spoken Language

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Discourse

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Written or spoken texts that are longer than a sentence.

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Pragmatics

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How study is used within a given context, how context contributes to meaning.

“Were you raised in a barn?”
Pragmatically: a command to close the door

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Openings and Closings

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Can be formulaic and a quick marker of register.

Highlight the end of an interaction.

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Adjacency Pairs

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Turns in spoken discourse that relate to each other.

Expected response.

Functions are to facilitate turn-taking, promotes social harmony.

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Overlaps

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Functions include:
-Accidental as we think the other person has finished speaking.

-When we are excited.

-Agreeing with or echoing someone’s thoughts.

Can also be deliberate with the function to contradict, interject, or take the floor.

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Interrogative Tags

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A statement which uses a tag at the end to create an interrogative.

Functions include:
-To signal a speaker is relinquishing the floor to another person.

-To check the other person is listening, understanding/agreeing, and thereby holding the floor.

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Discourse Particles/ Markers

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Little words/phrases which are used in our speech for a particular purpose.

Mark changes in the discourse/ express a particular emotion/emphasis.

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Hedges

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A type of discourse particle.

Reduce the force of what we’re saying.

Uncertainty/modesty creating a more friendly, less authoritative utterance.

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Non-Fluency Features

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Reflect spontaneous discourse.

Not necessarily the best features to show register (informality), instead link them to the mode.

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Strategies in Spoken Discourse

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Help speakers to achieve successful communication and create a harmonious social environment.

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Topic Management

Strategies in Spoken Discourse

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Refers to the methods speakers use to manage a topic within a conversation or monologue.

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Initiation

Strategies in Spoken Discourse

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Introducing a new topic in a conversation, explicitly or implicitly.

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Development

Strategies in Spoken Discourse

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Expanding upon initial conversation topics.

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Shift

Strategies in Spoken Discourse

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Conversation moves coherently from one topic to another.

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Change

Strategies in Spoken Discourse

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Transition from one topic to a different topic during a conversation, naturally or deliberately.

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Loop

Strategies in Spoken Discourse

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Returning or revisiting to a previously discussed topic.

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Termination

Strategies in Spoken Discourse

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The closure of a topic in conversation.

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Taking The Floor

Turn Taking

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Otherwise known as getting your turn.

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Passing The Floor

Turn Taking

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Giving someone else a turn.

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Holding The Floor

Turn Taking

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Maintaining your turn.

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Management of Repair Strategies

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Repair management refers to the process by which speakers identify and correct communication problems.

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Self-Initiated Self Repair

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The speaker realises their own mistake and corrects it immediately without intervention from the listener.

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Self-Initiated Other Repair

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The speaker notices their own mistake and invites the listener to correct it.

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Other-Initiated Self Repair

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The listener indicates a problem and the speaker makes the correction. This indicates a cooperative speech exchange and familiarity or rapport with the listener.

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Other-Initiated Other Repair

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The listener indicates a problem and provides the correction. It may cause offense if not appropriate to the context.

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Referential

Functions

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Sharing information with an audience. The information may or may not be true, but is presented as factual and objective.

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Emotive

Functions

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Speaker expresses emotions or desires. This function is about the speaker and their emotion

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Conative

Functions

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Directions, questions and commands. The conative function aims to cause the audience to react in some way.

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Phatic

Functions

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Creating and maintaining social connection. The message tends to be somewhat meaningless outside of a social connection.

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Metalinguistic

Functions

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Describes language itself. This function allows the speaker to check whether they have been understood or are using the right type of language for the conversation.

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Poetic

Functions

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Focuses on the message itself rather than the communicators. It is aesthetic in nature, referring to texts which are created for beauty and wit.

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