Spoken Language
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- Created on: 09-10-14 10:05
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- Spoken Language
- Stress and Intonation
- Stress emphasis of syllables
- Intonation is the variation of pitch
- Functions
- Transactional; getting something done
- Expressive; expression to feelings
- Instructional; how to do something
- Phatic; socialising through 'small talk'
- Referential; factual knowledge
- Persuasive; point of view, changing someone's mind
- Performative; an action with a 'set' form of words
- Structure
- Monologue; one speaker
- Dialogue; two or more speakers
- Line of speech is an utterance
- Longer piece of text is a discourse
- Non Fluency Features
- Fillers; words with no meaning 'like' 'yanno'
- Filled Pause; hesitations 'um' 'er' If pause is silent its a 'unvoiced pause'
- False Starts; self correction
- Elision; letters missing 'Lemee go!'
- Ellipsis' words missing from text
- Tag Question; questions that encourage agreement
- SBC; showing speaker they are following 'I see' 'ok uhum'
- Paralinguistic features; outside of language. (laughs) (gasps)
- Discourse Marker; signals a person wants to start talking 'ok then..' 'well...'
- Transcripts; written version of spoken language
- Short Pause (.) Long Pause (3)
- Literal; the locution of sentence. Intended; the illocution of the sentence
- "I'm still putting my shoes on" Literal (locution)
- "Wait for me" Intended (Illocution)
- "I'm still putting my shoes on" Literal (locution)
- Hedges; shows uncertainty "He's 12, I think"
- Adjacency Pairs; an utterance that leads to a response
- Chaining; adjacency pairs linked
- Register; determined by relationship of speakers and context of situation
- describes a form of language appropriate to a situation
- talking to a doctor about a private health problem =formal
- describes a form of language appropriate to a situation
- Stress and Intonation
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