Spoken Language Features

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Accent
How words are pronounced.
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Address
How people refer to each other e.g. Mum, Mother, Madam.
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Adjacency Pairs
Topic of convo (flowing, operation,agreement, dominance etc.).
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Agenda
Exchange between speakers, connected, expected responses (e.g. patterns, power, co-operation).
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Back Channel
Words, phrases, non-verbal utterances, agreement, want to hear more (e.g. I see, uh, oh etc.).
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Backtracking
Going back in a sentence to include info that wasn't included before).
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Contraction
Omission with apostrophe.
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Deixis/deictics
Listener knows what and utterance refer to (e.g. this, that, there etc.).
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Dialect
Speech distinctive to a regional/ social background.
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Discourse Markers
Words/phrases signal connection between utterances (e.g. first, then, now etc.).
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Elision
Slurring of 1+ syllables (e.g. gonna, wanna, sorta etc.).
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Ellipsis
Omission of a part of a grammatical structure (e.g. You alright?).
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False Start
Speaker starts with utterance, either repeats or rephrases.
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Filler
Gain thinking time/voiced pause (e.g. er, um).
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Hedges
Vague words/phrases that soften the force of something said (e.g. maybe, sort of).
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Idiolect
Features that make-up personal style of speaking.
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Monitoring Talk
Comment on/understand what's been said, reviews on convo (e.g. Do you see what I mean?, You know?).
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Phatic Talk
Utterances with stock responses, establish/maintain relationships (e.g. How are you? Fine thank you).
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Repair
Repeats what's said with correction of an error.
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Simultaneous Speech
Two speakers overlap speech, impatience, engagement.
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Tag Questions
Sometimes rhetorical, added to declarative sentence, turns in a question (e.g. Don't you...?, Isn't it...?).
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Vague Language
Unsure, imprecise statements (e.g. whatever, and stuff, and so on etc.).
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Vocative
Names/titles, forms of address.
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Card 2

Front

How people refer to each other e.g. Mum, Mother, Madam.

Back

Address

Card 3

Front

Topic of convo (flowing, operation,agreement, dominance etc.).

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Exchange between speakers, connected, expected responses (e.g. patterns, power, co-operation).

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Words, phrases, non-verbal utterances, agreement, want to hear more (e.g. I see, uh, oh etc.).

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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