Eng. Lang. | general spoken lang. terminology

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Discourse marker
Word used to signal change in topic/conversation, i.e. firstly, so, anyway.
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Ellision
Missing out letters, i.e. wanna.
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Ellipsis
Missing out words, i.e. "you OK?"
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MLU (Mean Length Utterance)
How long an utterance is.
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Adjacency pair
2 parts of an utterance
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IRF
Initiation, Response, Feedback, i.e. A: hi, How are you?, B: Fine, thanks, A: Good.
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Grice's Maxims
Quality, Quantity, Relevance, Manner
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Quality (Maxim)
Be truthful.
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Quantity (Maxim)
Amount spoken.
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Relevance (Maxim)
Don't go off-topic.
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Manner (Maxim)
Don't be ambiguous.
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Idiolect
Your individual way of speaking.
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Sociolect
Sharing lang. features with a group.
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Deixis
Words that don't make sense of situation (context)
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Emphatic stress
Words in bold in a transcript - emphasised.
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Hedging
Beating around the bush; softening something said.
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Transactional talk
Business talk
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Interactional talk
Talking to talk
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Paralinguistic features
Features to show tone, i.e. laughing, crying.
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Non-fluency features
Things that cause conversations to lose fluency, i.e. pauses, fillers.
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Voiced pause
Fillers, hedging
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Unvoiced pause
Noises made to fill space, i.e. "erm", "hmmmm".
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Phatic talk
Social chit-chat, i.e. "Hi, how are you?".
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Back-channelling
Feedback to show others that you're listening, i.e. "mmmhmmm", "I see".
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Small talk
Talk that's primarily interactional and geared towards establishing relationships.
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Card 2

Front

Missing out letters, i.e. wanna.

Back

Ellision

Card 3

Front

Missing out words, i.e. "you OK?"

Back

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Card 4

Front

How long an utterance is.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

2 parts of an utterance

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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