spoken language

• GRICE

  • quality ]
  • quantity
  • relevance
  • manner
• What is deixis in language?

  Contextual reference in conversation
• What does deictic reference refer to?

  A phrase understood only by conversation participants
• What are paralinguistics?

  Gestures and facial expressions
• What is the significance of high frequency terms in speech?

  They are more likely to be used in conversation
• What does quotative like refer to?

  Using 'like' instead of 'said'
• What are discourse markers?

  Words like 'oh', 'well', or 'like'
• What are adjacency pairs in conversation?

  Exchanges of one turn each by two speakers
• How are turns in adjacency pairs functionally related?

  They tend to be closed questions
• What is a preferred response in conversation?

  The expected response given in an exchange
• What is a dispreferred response?

  A response that is not expected
• What is an insertion sequence?

  A sequence of terms for more information
• What does TRP stand for?

  Transition relevance place
• What happens at a TRP?

  It's natural for another speaker to take a turn
• What is the initiation-response-feedback sequence?

  A structure of conversational exchanges
• What do letters represent in language?

  Orthographic symbols
• What is a stative verb?

  A verb indicating a state
• What is a dynamic verb?

  A verb indicating action
• How are vowels produced?

  By airflow
• How are consonants produced?

  By blocking airflow
• What is a phoneme?

  A unit of sound
• What is a morpheme?

  A unit of word
• what is a prescriptivist?

  believe language has rules that need to be followed
• descriptivist

  believes language has no rules and language is what language is
• linguistic determinisim

  language determines the way we think
• linguistic relativism

  there is a relationship between language and thought
• mode

  genre

  spoken or written
• text producer

  purpose

  what do they want the reader to feel

  how do they want to portray themselves
• text receiver

  audience

  how are they using language to show their target audience

  what assumptions have they made

  class/sexuality/culture/religion