English spoken language

English- spoken language!!!

• What to think about:
• Planned and spontaneous speech
• Dominant speaker
• Particpants
• Terrirtoy
• Purpose of discussion
• Relationship between participants
• Topic of discussion
• Address terms
• State of mind
• Form of language
• Setting
• Who starts and who lead
• Who's easily intderupted and why
• Techniques used:
• Utterances
• Overlaps
• Interuptions
• Repeated questions
• Personal pronouns
• Hedging
• Presnce of others
• Offensive language
• Collective nouns
• Politeness strategiies
• Sarcasm
• Adjacency pairs
• Meekness
• Hesitation
• Terminology
• Closed questions
• Persuassion
• Contrast in viewpoints
• Implication- the conclusion that can be drawn from something although it is not explicitly stated
• Oral
• Redemption
• Rhetorical questions
• Semantic field
• False starts
• Fillers
• Digressions
• Filled pauses/non-verbal communication
• Ellipsis/deletion- a sudden leap from one topic to another, the act of leaving out one or more words that are not necessary for a phrase to be understood
• Phatic communication- conversational speech used to communicate sociability
• Coutesy items
• Abbreviations
• Open questions
• Slang
• Deixis- Words or phrases that can only be understood from the context of the text or utterance where they are found are deictic
• Speed/pace
• Statistics
• Tag questions
• Turn- taking
• Volume
• Paralinguistic features
• Colloquialisms
• Syntactc parallelism
• Observations
• Leave-taking
• Reprimand
• Figurative language
• Emotive language
• Idiolect
• Register
• Agenda
• Degree of shared knowledge