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2. Words and phrases used to signal the relationship and connections between utterances and to signpost the speech.

  • Accent
  • Discourse marker
  • Vague Language

3. Conversational utterances that have no concrete purpose other than to establish or maintain personal relationships. It's related to small talk - and follows traditional patterns, with stock responses and formulaic expressions

  • Elicitative talk
  • Phatic talk
  • Expressive talk

4. Items that do not make conventional sense, but which are inserted into speech to give the speaker time to think while holding their turn in the conversation.

  • Filled/unvoiced pause
  • Ellipsis
  • Adjacency pairs

5. A reduced form often marked by an apostrophe in writing

  • Contraction
  • Ellipsis
  • Non standard grammar

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