Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Features of Spoken Language test

"Three men in a pub" and "Goin' to the party" are examples of - ellipsis

"er", "um", "you know" are examples of - fillers

"Idiolect" is - an individually distinctive style of speaking

"sort of", "like", "and so on" are examples of - voiced pauses

"Back-channeling" is - listener feedback signalling support/understanding

"Deixis" is - word which point to something outside the text. E.g. paralinguistic features

Pitch, pase, stress and rhythm are examples of - prosodic features

"gonna", "gimme" and "loadsa" are examples of - elision

"We was going down the road" and "He didn't know nothing" are examples of - non standard grammar

Hesitation, repetition, false starts are examples of - non fluency features

Question-answer and greeting-return are examples of - adjacency pairs

Phatic talk is - small talk (social gel)

"It's ok here isn't it?" is an example of - tag questions

Gestures and facial expressions are examples of - paralinguistic features

"Anyway", "so" and "next thing" are likely to be examples of - discourse markers


Pragmatics is the study of - what a speaker means rather than simply the words they say


Rather than use 'sentence' we should say - utterance 

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