Spontaneous Speech Terminolgy Quiz

1) 'A pattern of speech in which one utterance is followed by an appropriate linked response' - is the definition of the term adjacency pairs
2) The term side sequencing means 
3) An example of a tag question is - 'It's cold today, isn't it?'
4) Three examples of non-fluency features are hesitation, false starts and repetition.
5) Phatic language is another phrase for 'small talk' for example, 'How was your weekend?' and 'How are you?'
6) Non verbal aspects of speech or 'paralinguistic features' can help reveal a speaker's attitudes and feelings. Two other non verbal aspects of speech are 'prosodic features' and 'non fluency features' 
7) 'elp me orf this orse' is an example of phonetic spelling which means the spelling of words to represent how they are pronounced.
8) Grice's maxims of conversation: 

• Quantity: Saying too much or too little
• Quality: Truth
• Relevence: Staying on topic (side sequence)
• Manner: Clear communication 
• Important: When flouted 

9) Grice was interested in suggesting what helps to create an informative conversation.

10) When analysing spontaneous speech we do not refer to 'sentences' but utterances.

11) Brown and Levinsom put forward some theories about politeness. Four positive strategies that we might employ if we want to be like are keeping a positive face by feeling the need to be expected, self and other (say nothing) which suggests you should wait to be offered rather than asking for example, onbviously looking in your bag for a pen but not asking for one, say something (on and off record) means dropping hint like 'I forgot my pen', and on record which is being forward and asking for something, 'hey, please could I borrow a pen if you have one?'

12) In order to analyse a transcript we must establish three things as awareness of from the outset, these are establishing the context by knowing who wrote it, coding your material by assigning attributes to specific units of analysis and examining the structure of the text.