English language terminology

Adjacency pairs

exchanges between speakers that are connected and that have expected responses

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backtraking

interruption of the sequence to include information that should have been included earlier

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Cooperative signals

signals that indicate agreement or wanting to hear more e.g. ok, go on, mmm

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Deictic language

tell the listener what, where, and to whom e.g. this, that, there

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Discourse markers

words or phrases that signal the relationships and connections e.g. first, now, on the other hand

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Hedges

vague words or phrases that are used to soften the force of how something is said e.g. perhaps, maybe, sort of

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Monitoring talk

words or phrases that check or comment on what is being said e.g. do you see what i mean?

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Tag questions

questions that turn a declarative (statement) into an interrogative (question) e.g. don't you?, isn't it?

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interruption of the sequence to include information that should have been included earlier

backtraking

signals that indicate agreement or wanting to hear more e.g. ok, go on, mmm

tell the listener what, where, and to whom e.g. this, that, there

words or phrases that signal the relationships and connections e.g. first, now, on the other hand

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