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6. What is dialect?

  • the words only some people use
  • the words that we use
  • they way only some people speak
  • how you speak

7. What is an adjacency pair?

  • a break in the conversation
  • sets of turns such as questions and answers
  • the relationship between participants and the level of formality
  • beating around the bush

8. What is self-correction?

  • immediate repetition of a word. phrase or clause
  • mitigating the strength of a statement
  • the amendment of a mistake - usually the wrong lexical choice by a speaker
  • The repetition of a word or phrase

9. If someone was to say 'er' and 'erm' what would they be doing?

  • doing a flase start
  • doing a micro-pause
  • hesitating
  • pausing

10. What involves moving from one topic to a related topic or from one aspect of the current topic of another?

  • changing
  • shifting
  • drifting
  • resuming