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11 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Accent
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The way in which words are pronounced. Accent can vary according to the region or social class of a speaker.
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Adjacenty Pairs
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Parallel expressions used across the boundaries of individual speaking turns. They are usually ritualistic and formulaic socially. For example: "How are you?"/"Fine Thanks"
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Back-Channel
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Words, phrases and non-verbal utterances [e.g. 'I see', 'oh' 'uh huh' 'really'] used by a listener to give feedback to a speaker that the message is being followed
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Contraction
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A reduced form often marked by an apostrophe in writing - e.g. can't = cannot; she'll = she will
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Deixis/Deictics
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Words such as 'this', 'that', 'here', 'there' which refer backwards or forwards or outside a text - a sort of verbal pointing. Very much a contect dependant feature of talk.
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Dialect
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The distinctive grammar and vocabulary which is associated with a regional or social use of language
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Discourse Marker
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Words and phrases which are used to signal the relationship and connections between utterances and to signpoint that what is said can be followed by the listener or reader. e.g. 'first', 'on the other hand' 'now' 'what's more', 'so anyway' etc.
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Elision
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The omission of slurring [eliding] of one of more sounds or syllables - e.g. gonna = going to; wannabe = want to be; wassup = what is up.
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Ellipsis
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The omission of part of a grammatical structure. For example, in the dialogue: "you going to party?"/"might be" - the verb 'are' and the pronoun 'I' are missed out. Resulting ellipses conveys a more causual and informal tone.
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False Start
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This is when the speaker begins an utterance, then stops and either repeats or reformulates it. Sometimes called self-correction.
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Filler
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Items which do not carry conventional meaning but which are inserted in speech to allow time to think, to create a pause or to hold a turn in coversation. Examples are 'er', 'um', 'ah'.
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