Discourse

• Accommodation


  A term used to describe the changes make the speech, prosodic features and gestures in order to emphasise or minimise the differences between them
• Adjacency pair


  A sequence of two connected utterances by different speakers one after the other
• Assimilation


  The way in which the sounds of one word can change the sounds of neighbouring in connected speech
• Back channelling 


  Interactive features such as minimal responses that demonstrate a participant is listening and paralinguistic features that show affirmation
• Colloquialism


  An informal word, phrase or pronunciation, often associated with informal speech
• Comment clause


  A commonly occurring clause in speech which adds a remark to another clause
• Convergence


  A process in which two speakers adapt their language and pronunciation to reduce the difference between them