c1 Terminology

• Accommodation: Emphasise or minimise differences in speech.
• Adjacency pairs: two connected utterances by different speakers.
• Anecdote: Personal story.
• Back channelling: minimal responses that show listening.
• Code switching: changing language to fit a situation.
• Comment clause: a clause added to another remark (I think...)
• Competing for the floor: Trying to dominate the conversation
• Contraction: Shortened words
• Convergence: Reducing differences in speech.
• Deixis: expressions that rely on context for interpretation.
• Dialect: Language from an area.
• Discourse markers: words that stand outside the clause and can act as fillers, topic changers, or headers.
• Divergence: Increase difference
• Elision: Omission of sounds
• Ellipsis: Omission of part of a sentence.
• Emphatic stress: Emphasis on important terms and ideas
• Face threatening: Intentionally belittling others
• Filler: Words with no semantic value inserted into speech (um)
• Hedges: Mitigating words to lessen the impact of an utterance (I think)
• Hyperbole: Exaggeration
• Idiolect: Words individual to a person
• Interjection: Used to communicate emotions or spontanous responses.
• Intonation: quality or tone in voice which can rise or fall.
• Minimal responses: Short replies to minimise interaction
• Monitoring features: Expression which allow the speaker to check someone is listening.
• Non-lexical expression: Speech feature that isn't a word (oops)
• Overlapping: talking over each other.
• Phatic talk: Small talk
• Prosodic features: use of pitch, volume, pace, and rhythm to draw attention to key features.
• Phonetics: Study of spoken words.
• Phonology: Study of sounds in a particular language
• Pragmatics: Context
• Colloquialisms: Slang
• Sociolect: Language from a social group
• Tag question: An interrogative which is attached which encourages a reply
• Tenor: relationship between participants in a language interaction.
• Turn-taking: Taking turns in a social interaction.
• Vague language: Not understandable but clear with context (thingy)
• Vocative: Terms of address.