Spontaneous Speech Terminology Quiz

1) "A pattern of speech in which one utterance is followed by an appropriate linked response" - Adjacency pairs

2) Explain the term side sequencing- Relevance, not going off the topic of conversation. 

3) Give and example of a 'tag question' - Nice weather isn't it?

4) Three examples of non-fluency features - Fillers, Voiced pause and Hedges 

5) Explain the phrase 'phatic talk' and give examples - Small talk in a conversation e.g. 'What did you do today' and 'What are your plans for the weekend' 

6) Non-verbal aspects of speech or paralinguistic features such as fillers can help reveal a speaker's attitudes and feelings. Hedges and voiced pauses are also aspects of this. 

7) 'elp me orf this 'orse' is an example of elision spelling which means the spelling of words to represent how they are pronounced. 

8) Grice's maxims: 

Quantity - too little or too much 

Quality - truth in the conversation 

Relevance - on top/side sequence

Manner - clear communication

9) Grice was interested in suggesting what helps to create a chaining conversation.

10) When analysing spontaneous speech we don't refer to sentences but utterances. 

11) Politeness strategies we may employ if we want to be liked - tag questions, discourse markers and in a group jargon and slang. 

12) In order to analyse a transcript what three things much you establish an awareness of from the outset: Context - where the conversation took place, If the people know/knew each other and the topic of conversation.