Features of spoken discourse 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageKEY TERMSASAQA Created by: Amyy_Created on: 17-11-15 15:07 Back-Channelling Non-verbal utterances to show attention or agreement in conversation. Feature of speaker support 1 of 13 Discourse Marker Signals shift in conversation, and change in topic 2 of 13 Fillers Non-verbal sounds that can act as pauses in speech, either naturally to give thinking time 3 of 13 Hedging A strategy used to avoid directness or to minimis a potentially face-threatening act 4 of 13 False Starts When a speaker begins to speak, pauses then recommences (self correction) 5 of 13 Skip Connectors A return to a previous topic of conversation - esssentially a type of discourse marker 6 of 13 Fixed Expressions A conventional and routine expression in colloquial communication 7 of 13 Vauge Expressions Similar to hedging, deliberatley non-committal expressions in informal contexts 8 of 13 Ellipsis Omission of certain elements, as appropiate to informal contexts 9 of 13 Tag Questions These consist of an auxiliary verb, a negating particle and a pronoun - can be a sign of speaker support, or uncertainty 10 of 13 Deixis Pointing words - common in spoken discourse 11 of 13 Non-fluency features Non-verbal occurances 12 of 13 Para-linguistic fearures Non-verbal communication 13 of 13
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