English Key Terms

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Accent
The way in which words are pronounced
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Adjancey pairs
Parallel expressions used across the boundaries of individual speaking turns
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Back-channel
Words, phrases and non-verbal utterances used by a listener in response to a speaker
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Closing sequences
Signing off
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Contraction
A reduced form
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Deixis
Words which refer backwards, forwards or outside of the text
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Dialect
Distinctive grammar and vocabulary which is associated with a region
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Discourse marker
Words, phrases or clauses that organise what we say or write
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Ellision
The omission or slurring of sounds or syllables
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Ellipsis
The omission of a part of a grammatical structure
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False start
When the speaker begins an utterance, then stops and either repeats or reformulates it
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Filler
Items which do not carry conventional meaning but are inserted in speech to allow time to think
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Grice's Maxims
Four basic conversational rules; quantity, relevance, manner and quality
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Hedge
Words or phrases which often soften the force which something is said
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Idiolect
An individually distinctive style of speaking
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Interactional talk
Language in conversation used for sociallising
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Non-fluency features
Typical characteristics of spoken language that interupt the flow of talk
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Openings
Conversation starters
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Paralinguistic features
Related to body language
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Phatic talk
Conversational utterances that have no concrete purpose other than to establish or maintain personal relationships
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Pragmatics
Focuses on contexts and purposes of people in conversation
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Pre-closing signals
Ways of indicating the conversation is ending
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Prosodic features
Stress, rhythm, pitch, tempo and intonation
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Repairs
An alteration that is suggested by a speaker in order to correct a previous conversational contribution
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Sociolect
A social dialect or variety of speech used by a particular group
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Tag question
Strings of words normally added to turn the statement into a question
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Topic, topic shifts, topic starters and topic loops
All terms concerned with what people are talking about
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Transactional talk
Language used to transmit content or information
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Turn taking
A time during which a single participant speaks
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Utterance
A complete unit of talk
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Vague language
Statements that sound imprecise and unassertive
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Card 2

Front

Parallel expressions used across the boundaries of individual speaking turns

Back

Adjancey pairs

Card 3

Front

Words, phrases and non-verbal utterances used by a listener in response to a speaker

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Signing off

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

A reduced form

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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