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WorksheetsEL Spoken Discourse
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is NOT a feature of Spoken Discourse?
Overlapping Speech
Interrogative Tags
Discourse Particles
Minimal Responses
(back- channelling)
What is NOT a feature of Spoken Discourse?
Openings and Closings
Prosodic Features
Adjacency Pairs
Holding the floor
What is a feature of Spoken Discourse?
Minimal Responses
Non-fluency features
Topic Management
Holding the floor
What is the acronym that helps you to remember the Prosodic features
(a)
Which of the following is not a Vocal Effect?
Sneezing
Intake of breath
Laughter
Cough
Paralinguistic features are comprised of ... (two words)
(a)
Code-switching is:
Minimal Responses
Changing topics in conversation
Switching between different languages or dialects
A strong marker of social identity and belonging
Ladies and Gentlemen is an example of a ...
(a)
Discourse Particles are:
Voiced hesitations such as um, ah and er
Little words or phrases we deliberately insert in our speech
A false start
A non-fluency feature
"Could you sort of move over just a little bit? Is an example of ...
A hedging expression
Navigating negative face needs
Addressing positive face needs
A false start
Interrogative tags are:
The way we turn a statement into a question at the end of a phrase of sentence
Used to check that the person is following, understanding or agreeing.
A floor-passing strategy
Little words or phrases we deliberately insert in our speech
Find an example of an adjacency pair
This isn't ok and you know it isn't!
1 + 1 = 2.
Can you talk?
Yeah, go ahead.
You can't bring that to school because it will be confiscated.
What is true in overlapping speech (2 answers)
It's more common in spontaneous discourse
It never happens in formal scripted interviews
It always happens in spoken conversations
It can be used to interject
Find all the non fluency features
Filled pauses
Rising intonation
Voiced hesitations
Repairs
Find all the non fluency features
Repetition
False Starts
Pauses
Minimal Response
Find examples of a pause filler
Yeah - Nah
Ah ... er ...
Ummm
Wait, i'm having a blank
Sort of, kind of, like, I think, a bit and just are all examples of ...
(a)
Holding the floor can be achieved by:
Continuing intonation
Filled pauses
Rising intonation
Conjunctions
Minimal Responses:
Show you're not interested
Demonstrate encouragement to continue
Are features of cooperative conversation
Do not occur in interviews
The following expressions "Hello Darling" and "Hi Mum" are examples of ...
(a)
