A2 Language Terminology

• A 'question and answer' or 'statement and response' is known as adjacency pairs 

• The term for say 'yeah' and uh-huh' while someone is peaking is called back channeling 

• When talk flows swiftly from one turn to the next it is known as Latched talk 

• When you affect the data you are studying bu investigating it it is called the observers paradox

• Your investigation needs to be ethical, comparable and reliable

• AO3 awards marks for context

• GRAPE stands for: Genre Reception Audience Purpose Expectations 

• Your text needs to be analysed for meanings and representations 

• High frequency lexis and syntax are both terms from the framework 'Lexis' 

• Tannen's 3D theory is differences 

• Less taboo language, hedges and more colour terms are all deficit features 

• Cameron said "your genes don't determine you jeans"

• Trudgill did their NORMS research in Norwich 

• The island locals in Martha's Vineyard showed covert prestige 

• There was more pronunciation of the post-vocalic R sound in more expensive stores in Labov's 'fourth floor' study 

• Over generalisation is when children apply standard grammatical rules to irregular verbs and nouns 

• There are 15 morphemes in this quote: "now you can't exactly be like Jesus (0.5) instead you need to get some help"

• The stage after the two-word stage is called the telegraphic stage 

• Halliday's function for getting your needs met was instrumental 

• Deb Roy did the research on his son and discovered that caregivers simplify utterances around a word that is about to be learned