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35 Cards in this Set
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How can we give feedback? |
Body language Oral signals/paralanguage/backchannelling |
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What is agenda setting? |
Initiating topics and controlling topics of conversation |
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What terms are there relating to topic?
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Topic shift Topic loop Topic marker Topic manager |
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What is an adjacency pair? |
A two part exchange |
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What is an insertion sequence? |
One adjacency pair embedded within another |
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How can you tell who has the power in a conversation? |
Agenda setting Ignoring and interruption Imperatives Fluency Talks more Status Prosodic features |
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What are prosodic features? |
The way we speak. Tone Pitch Volume Intonation |
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What is rhetoric? |
The art of persuasive discourse |
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What is included in context? |
Situation Purpose Target audience |
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What is pathos? |
Appeals to a sense if emotion and evokes feelings |
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What is ethos? |
Speaker's own thoughts/ideology |
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What is a false start? |
A speaker changes from one grammatical construction to another |
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What is a filled pause? |
A voiced hesitation |
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What is a filler? |
A word or expression with little meaning inserted into speech |
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What is idiolect? |
The way language is used by a particular individual |
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What is an oral signal? |
An expressive sound such as mmm or a laugh, sigh etc |
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What is phatic communication? |
'Small talk' - utterances that mean little but serve a social purpose |
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What is repair? |
An utterance that resolves a problem in a conversation |
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What is an unvoiced pause? |
A silent pause |
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What is antithesis? |
Two words that contrast each other in a sentence due to having directly opposite meanings |
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What is a referential utterance? |
An utterance that provides information |
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What is an expressive utterance? |
An utterance that expresses the speaker's feelings |
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What is the effect of high frequency lexis? |
Everyone can understand |
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What is the effect of low frequency lexis? |
Shows authority and gives power to the speakers |
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What is an incomplete construction? |
An utterance in which words or grammatical elements are missing |
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What is ellipsis? |
Omission of words |
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What is a hyperbole? |
Deliberate exaggeration for effect |
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What is slang? |
Lexis not appropriate to formal contexts |
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What is parallelism and its effect? |
The use of phrases with a similar grammatical structure. Helps create a strong, emphatic rhythm which stresses key ideas. |
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What is tripling and its effect? |
Three part lists. Power in numbers, points support each other, more likely to remember the points. |
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What is the effect of first person plural pronouns? |
Promotes a feeling of unity and makes the audience feel included |
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What is the effect of second person pronouns? |
Forces the audience to put itself in the speaker's situation and reflect on what they would do |
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What is the effect of figurative language? |
Make a speech more vivid and memorable. |
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What are paralinguistic features? |
Non-verbal communication |
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What is a semantic field? |
A group of words with linked or associated meanings |
