spoken features

Cards (15)

  • Non-standard English
    Informal version of English
  • Types of diction
    Idiolect
    Sociolect
    Neoligism /Coinage
  • Idiolect
    The speech specific to a particular person
  • Sociolecgt
    The type of speech specific to a society
  • Adjacency pairs
    Two speakers, one coming after the other
  • end clipping?

    removing the last syllable e.g. biology to bio
  • hedge?
    mitigation
  • turn-taking?

    Conversation
  • non-fluency features?

    voice fillers; pauses; mispronunciations and ungrammatical. utterances; same-turn abandonments; interruptions; overlaps; and failures to hold the floor
  • mode?
    how the text is presented, in the written or spoken mode?
  • paralinguistic features?

    body language, facial expressions, laughter, sighs, whisperings.
  • stress?

    the emphasis placed on certain words, through volume, significant pauses, inflexion.
  • topic shifter ?

    an utterance that moves a conversation on to another topic
  • elision?
    gonna, wanna.
  • Intonation
    the rise and fall of the voice in speaking