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43 Cards in this Set

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indirection
making a request without directly asking
context
the cultural and social situation
ethnography of speaking/ ethnography of communication
an ethnography focused on describing and analyzing the ways that people use langiuage in real situations
communicative competence
the ability to speak a language well or the ability to use one's language correctly in a variety of social situations
speech community
a group of people who share one or more varieties of language and the rules for using those varieties in everyday communication
linguistic community
a group of people who share a single language variety and focus their identity around that language
community of practice
a group of individuals who interact regularly, developing unique ways of doing things together
linguistic competence
a speaker's underlying ability to produce and recognize grammatically correct expressions
S - Setting/situation
the place in which the conversation is taking place and the overall feeling of the place
P - Participants
who can or should be involved in various speech events or conversations
E - Ends
the reasons for which the speech event is taking place, or the goals that people have in speaking in a particular situation
adjacency pairs
greeting and response exchanges
speech acts
describes specific utterances, with intentions of the speaker
speech event
one of more speech acts involving one of more participants
speech situation
the entire setting or situation in which people speak
K - key
the mood or spirit in which communication takes place
I - Intstrumentalities
the channels that are used as well as the varieties of language that speakers use
mutually unintelligible
when 2 or more ways of speaking cannot understand each other - separate languages
mutually intelligible
when 2 or more ways of speaking can understand each other - separate dialects
register
varieties of a language that are appropriate in specific situations
N - norms
the expectations that speakers have about appropriateness of speech use
G - genres
the different kinds of speech acts of events
rich point
the kind of moment in which things "go wrong" in a speech situation
M-A-R
Mistake, awareness, repair
M - mistake
recognizing that a rich point has occurred, something has gone wrong, communication has broken down somehow
A - awareness
recognizing that different expectations have caused the rich point to occur
R - repair
developing new sets of expectations to use in communicating
nonverbal communication/ body language
the process of transmitting messages without spoken words
proxemics
the study of how people perceive and use space (developed by Edward T. Hall)
kinesics
the study of body movements, facial expressions and gestures (developed by Ray Birdwhistell)
kineme
the minimal unit of visual expression
allokines
variant forms of kinemes
kinemorphs
meaningful units of visual expression
emblems
gestures with direct verbal translations
illustrators
gestures to depict or illustrate what is said verbally
affect displays
gestures that convey emotion
regulators
gestures that control or coordinate interaction
adaptors
gestures that facilitate release of body tension
complex alternative sign languages
gestural systems that can be used almost as effectively as spoken language
sign language
language performed in 3 dimensional space
primes
elements of sign corresponding to the phonological elements of spoken language
paralanguage
sounds that accompany speech but that are not directly part of language
speech substitutes
systems of communication in which sound signals substitute for spoken words or parts of words