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BACK CHANNEL BEHAVIOUR
Noises and physical reactions that give the speaker feedback on their utterances as they speak. Usually noises like “mm”, “yeah”.
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ADJACENCY PAIRS
Adjacency pairs are pairs of utterances where the first part demands some sort of response. Types include greeting/greeting, question/answer ETC.
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DISFLUENCY FEATURES
Disfluency features’ includes pauses, fillers, false starts and repairs and are a normal part of unplanned speech.
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DEIXIS
Three types are personal deixis (e.g. I/you/me/she/he/they..), spatial deixis (this/that/there/here/somewhere) and temporal deixis (now/then/before/later).
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ELISION
Elision is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable ) in a word or phrase, producing a result that is easier for the speaker to pronounce. Eg. ‘going to’ becomes ‘gonna’.
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SYNCHRONOUS CONNECTION
Occurs when sender and recipient share the same moment of time (eg. face to face chat).
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ASYNCHRONOUS CONNECTION
takes place with a delay between sending and reception (eg. exchange of e-mails, or even in a chat-room).
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ELLIPSIS
Missing out a grammatically needed part of a sentence on the assumption the listener/reader can fill it in for themselves. Example: Where [are] you going?
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Adjacency pairs are pairs of utterances where the first part demands some sort of response. Types include greeting/greeting, question/answer ETC.

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ADJACENCY PAIRS

Card 3

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Disfluency features’ includes pauses, fillers, false starts and repairs and are a normal part of unplanned speech.

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Card 4

Front

Three types are personal deixis (e.g. I/you/me/she/he/they..), spatial deixis (this/that/there/here/somewhere) and temporal deixis (now/then/before/later).

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Card 5

Front

Elision is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable ) in a word or phrase, producing a result that is easier for the speaker to pronounce. Eg. ‘going to’ becomes ‘gonna’.

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