A-level English Language: Spoken Language Vocabulary Week 1

What is the meaning of Hedging?

• Using deliberately non-committal expressions

• A conventional and routine expression in colloquial communication, sometimes metaphorical

• A strategy used to avoid directness or to minimise a potentially face-threatening act. Often use modal forms

• Words that add specific context (often time/place)needed for the whole utterance to make sense

What is the meaning of Fixed expressions?

• Focusing on the speaker

• A conventional and routine expression in colloquial communication, sometimes metaphorical

• Signals a shift in conversation and topic areas; can also mark a counter-argument

• Words that add specific context (often time/place)needed for the whole utterance to make sense

What is the meaning of Vague expressions?

• Using deliberately non-committal expressions

• An expression where the meaning of the whole conveys more than the meaning of the parts

• A strategy used to avoid directness or to minimise a potentially face-threatening act. Often use modal forms

• Words that add specific context (often time/place)needed for the whole utterance to make sense

What is the meaning of Deixis?

• Distinctive vocabulary (or grammar) associated with a group

• A conventional and routine expression in colloquial communication, sometimes metaphorical

• Signals a shift in conversation and topic areas; can also mark a counter-argument

• Words that add specific context (often time/place)needed for the whole utterance to make sense

What is the meaning of Dialect?

• Distinctive vocabulary (or grammar) associated with a group

• A conventional and routine expression in colloquial communication, sometimes metaphorical

• Signals a shift in conversation and topic areas; can also mark a counter-argument

• Words that add specific context (often time/place)needed for the whole utterance to make sense

What is the meaning of Elision?

• Using deliberately non-committal expressions

• A conventional and routine expression in colloquial communication, sometimes metaphorical

• The omission or slurring (eliding) of one or more sounds or syllables

• Words that add specific context (often time/place)needed for the whole utterance to make sense

What is the meaning of Self-related comment?

• Focusing on the speaker

• Linked utterances produced by different people in a conversation

• An auxiliary verb + a negating participle + a pronoun. Can be a sign of speaker support, uncertainty or request for clarification

• Words that add specific context (often time/place)needed for the whole utterance to make sense

What is the meaning of Other-related comment?

• Focusing on the listener

• Linked utterances produced by different people in a conversation

• An auxiliary verb + a negating participle + a pronoun. Can be a sign of speaker support, uncertainty or request for clarification

• An expression where the meaning of the whole conveys more than the meaning of the parts

What is the meaning of Idiom?

• Multi-word utterances that are stored and retrieved from memory (frequent in commentaries etc)

• Linked utterances produced by different people in a conversation

• An auxiliary verb + a negating participle + a pronoun. Can be a sign of speaker support, uncertainty or request for clarification

• An expression where the meaning of the whole conveys more than the meaning of the parts

What is the meaning of Formulaic Utterance?

• Multi-word utterances that are stored and retrieved from memory (frequent in commentaries etc)

• Linked utterances produced by different people in a conversation

• A speaker begins to talk, pauses, then recommences

• Points at which speakers move from one topic to another