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Spoken language features
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- 1What is accent?How words are pronounced - can vary according to a persons region or social class
- 2What are Adjacency pairs?Parallel expressions e.g.
'How are you?'/'Fine thanks' - 3What is Back channel?Words or phrases used to show the listener understood e.g. 'I see', 'Oh', 'uh huh'
- 4What is contraction?A reduced word marked by an apostrophe e.g. can't = cannot
- 5What are Deictics?Words such as 'this', 'that', 'here' - verbal pointing
- 6What is Dialect?Grammar and vocabulary associated with regional/social use of language
- 7What are Discourse markers?'First', 'On the other hand', 'Now,
- 8What is Elision?Slurring syllables e.g. 'gonna', 'wannabe'
- 9What is Ellipsis?The omission of grammar in a sentence structure e.g. "You going to the party?"/"Might be"
Conveys a more casual, informal tone - 10What is a False start?Like self correction: speaker begins an utterance and either repeats or reformulates it
- 11What is a Filler?Words that are inserted into speech to allow time to think or to create a pause e.g. 'er', 'um', 'ah'.
- 12What are Grice's Maxims?4 MAXIMS:
Quantity: Don't say too much or too little
Quality: Be truthful
Manner: Speak in a clear, coherent way
Relevance: Keep to the point - 13What is Hedge?Words that soften or weaken the force of which something is said e.g. 'Perhaps', 'Maybe', 'Possibly', 'Sort of'
- 14What is Idiolect?An individual style of speaking
- 15What are Non-fluency features?Interruptions in the flow of talk e.g. Hesitations, false starts, fillers etc.
- 16What are Paralinguistic features?Related to body language: the use of gestures & facial expressions
- 17What is Phatic talk?Small talk
- 18What are Pragmatics?The underlying meaning of words/context
- 19What are Prosodic features?How something is said e.g. features such as stress, rhythm, pitch, tempo etc
- 20What is Sociolect?Variety of speech used by a particular group e.g. working class or upper class
- 21What is a tag question?A question put on the end of a statement e.g. 'It's a nice day, isn't it?'
- 22What is vague language?Statements that sound imprecise e.g. 'or whatever' 'and so on' ..
- 23What is Recieved Pronunciation? (RP)Said to be the accent of people in professional occupations, middle/high class
- 24What is Overt prestige?Posh, high class accent
- 25What is Covert prestige?Lower status accent
- 26What is convergence?Moving your speech closer to a social group
- 27What is Divergence?Moving your speech away from a social group
- 28What is Eye dialect?Words written how they would be roughly pronounced
- 29What is Prescriptivism?Belief that there's a correct way of using language, set of rules with language that should be followed
- 30What is Descriptivism?Belief that there's no correct way of the usage of language: appropriateness is dependant on context
- 31What is Register?Level of formality
- 32What are the 2 types of Register?Spoken and written - can be informal or formal
- 33Where is Spoken register normally used? List 3 examples.-Conversation
-Academic lecture
-Radio commentaries - 34Where is Written register normally used? List 2 examples.-Academic writing
-Informative writing
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- AS - Level English Language Karteikarten am Spoken language features, erstellt von Alice Richardson4468 am 14/12/2015.
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