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6. An utterance is...

  • when someone mutters
  • a group of spoken words, equivalent to the sentence in written terms
  • lexical items that point towards something and place words on context
  • a sentence containing one main clause with one or more subordinate clauses

7. Deixis is

  • a language feature that we do not need to know
  • a dutch word meaning pig
  • a group of spoken words that are equivalent to the sentence in written terms
  • a lexical item that points towards something and places words in context
  • a non word that works in the same way as lexical onomatapoeia

8. What are common features of spoken discourse?

  • pragmatics, semantics, lexis
  • back-channelling, fillers, discourse markers, hedging, false starts, tag questions
  • butting in, impoliteness, taboo language
  • two participants