Spoken Language Terminology

Question 1

what is my favourite chocolate?

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kit kat chunky

Question 2

an individal's particular way of speaking which may include/exclude a variety of features

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idiolect

Question 3

A 'voiced pause'; a feature of spontaneous speech which allows the speaker thinking time

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filler

Question 4

the omission or slurring of one or more sounds, often considered a feature of colloquial speech

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elision

Question 5

What sort of conversation function may take place between friends in a coffee shop?

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Interactional

Question 6

the omission/missing out of parts of a grammatical structure in speech

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ellipsis

Question 7

the term relating specifically to the ways words are pronounced- can be categorised regionally

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accent

Question 8

a verbal way of showing the speaker is being listened to e.g. "yeah", "uh huh", "ok" etc.

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back-channel features

Question 9

Tannen suggests this female trait in speech softens/weakens the force of an imperative

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hedge

Question 10

feature of spontaneous speech where the speaker begins but repeats/rephrases to ensure clarity

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false start

Question 11

theorist who came up with rules relating to successful conversations

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Grice

Question 12

Which one of these is NOT one of Grice's conversational maxims

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<p>method</p>

Question 13

features indicating spontaneous speech which include hesitations, fillers and pauses

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interactional features, spoken language features

Question 14

parallel expressions which are formulaic and can support a conversation between strangers

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adjacency pairs

Question 15

Which conversation function would you expect to occur at a bus stop?

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Phatic

Question 16

Which conversation function would you expect to occur in a shop?

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Transactional

Question 17

unplanned speech which contains many non-fluency features

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spontaneous speech

Question 18

strings of words which are added to a declarative utterance to make it interrogative

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tag question

Question 19

the underlying meaning of a text or utterance, perhaps beyond the surface story

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pragmatics

Question 20

words such as 'there', 'here', 'this', 'that', - a form of verbal pointing

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deixis

Question 21

imprecise or unassertive statements or phrases

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vague language

Question 22

term relating to the way things are spoken/heard e.g. stress, intonation, rhythm, pitch, tempo

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prosodic features

Question 23

What conversation function is often more one-sided and about conveying ideas about one topic?

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Referential

Question 24

words such as 'there', 'here', 'this', 'that', - a form of verbal pointing

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deixis

Question 25

a conversation function which uses language to 'get things done'

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transactional talk

Spoken Language Terminology

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Spoken Language Terminology

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