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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