2023 Unit 1, Area of Study 1 - Revision

Formulaic utterances and salutations are examples of which feature in our Study Design of spoken discourse?

• vocatives

• openings and closings

• greetings

• phatic statements

The following spoken discourse is an example of which feature:

"Hi Julie, how are you?"

"Great thanks, yourself?"

• adjacency pair

• opening and closing

• overlapping speech

• conventional discourse

Little 'fillers' that we insert in our speech for a particular purpose, such as "well", "yeah-no" or "like" are examples of what feature according to our Study Design?

• hedges

• filled pauses

• pause fillers

• discourse particles

What is one of the purposes of interrogative tags such as "aren't you"?

• signals a relinquishing of the floor

• makes someone agree

• makes someone disagree

• none of the answers

Pauses, filled pauses, voice hesitations, false starts, repetition and repairs are also examples of what feature?

• strategy in spoken discourse

• prosodic feature

• non-fluency feature

• spoken discourse

"Mmm", "yeah", "hmm" are examples of what feature?

• minimal responses

• discourse markers

• filled pauses

• non-fluency features

Passing the floor can be done by the use of ...

• falling intonation

• interrogative

• discourse particle

• all of the answers

The methods we use for controlling the topic of conversation are categorised as:

• speech patterns

• conversational strategies

• features of spoken discourse

• strategies in spoken discourse

Pitch, intonation, stress, tempo and volume are examples of

• prosodic features

• non-fluency features

• strategies in spoken discourse

• pragmatics

'Fillum' instead of 'film' is an example of

• assimilation

• poor speech

• insertion

• vowel reduction