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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