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6. Turn taking

  • Talking all at the same time
  • Interrupting someone during an exchange
  • Allowing both or all parties to talk during an exchange
  • Talking over someone

7. Dialect

  • The language somebody speaks
  • The way somebody speaks because of their region or social group
  • Informal words
  • Somebodies accent

8. Interrogative

  • An exclamation
  • A question
  • A command
  • A statement

9. Flout

  • Breaking the law
  • Deliberately going against the rules or conventions
  • Accidentally going against the rules or conventions
  • Breaking school rules

10. Modal verbs

  • Normal verbs
  • Verbs expressing necessity or possibility such as 'shall' or 'may'
  • Common verbs
  • Words such as 'quickly' or 'slowly'

11. Length of turn

  • How long somebody speaks for in an exchange
  • How longggg youuuu saayyyy eachhhh words forrrr
  • Allowing somebody else to speak for a length of time, even when it's out of turn
  • The duration of an exchange

12. Idiolect

  • Inaccurate language
  • The speech habits of a particular person
  • The language someone speaks
  • Accent

13. Overlaps

  • Two or more people talking at once
  • Speaking out of turn
  • Somebody stood in front of someone else during an exchange
  • Finishing each other's... Sandwiches

14. Exclamatory

  • A question
  • A statement
  • An exclamation
  • A command

15. Imperative

  • A command
  • An exclamation
  • A question
  • A statement

16. Colloquial vernacular / language

  • Informal language
  • Formal language
  • English language
  • Slang

17. Exchange

  • A play script
  • A conversation / talk between two or more people
  • A conversation between people where one person gives someone something
  • Talk in literature

18. Declarative

  • A statement
  • An exclamation
  • A question
  • A command

19. Back channelling

  • Ignoring a person when they're talking
  • Words used to encourage someone to carry on talking
  • A word for somebody's response to a question
  • Talk specific to a certain tv channel

20. Adjacency pairs

  • Two people stood adjacent to each other when talking
  • A pair of people talking in an exchange
  • Two utterances, one after the other, where the first provokes the second response
  • Two words that go together in an utterance