Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Spoken Language Termonology

Accent- How you pronounce a wod depending on were you are from and how the word sounds.
Dialect- Wodrs that are only used in certain parts of the country.
Adjacny Pairs- Simple polite questions.
Back Channel features- Your replys to when someone asks you a question(looking like your intrested).
Diexis- When you refer to something as 'it, that'.
Elision- When your accent pushes to words together 'gona'.
Ellipsis- 3 dots when written '...' when spoken it makes it sound more casual.
False Start- Is when you start a sentence but then it sounds wrong so you start again.
Fillers- 'ums,erms' trying to fill in a gap in the sentence.
Fluency- How good you are at speaking.