Speech
What is agenda?
The list of things to be discussed usually controlled by the interviewer
What is the term used to describe a quality or intangible thing?
An abstract noun
the pieces of information that tell actors how they should move around on stage
stage directions
Vocabulary
Lexis
participants
Who are the people taking part in an event or discussion?
Another name for turn taking
Adjacency Pair
a change in the focus of communication
topic shift
What genre might repeat place and character names?
Radio play
What is idiolect?
The term for an individual's language or speech patterns
What is APM?
Audience, purpose, mode.
What is dialogic?
An adjective used to describe a conversation between two people.
the rules of grammar
What is syntax?
How can a speaker's thoughts be portrayed in a play?
Interior Monologue or Soliloquy
Car, buggy, bicycle can be grouped together as...
the semantic field of transportation
What is a short interrogative structure attached to a declarative?
A tag question.
What is a very short pause?
Micropause
Ways in which sentences are created by authors to convey message and style
What are sentence constructions?
Crucial information about situation, plot and character given at the start of a text
What is the exposition?
What are elements of non-verbal communication such as gesture, posture, facial expressions?
Paralinguistic features
Verbal fencing might be described as this.
stichomythia
What term describes such things as false starts, fillers, hesitations?
non-fluency features
What is the repetition of the same grammatical structure used for rhetorical effect?
syntactic parallelism
What is the term used to describe the methods by which an author uses the audience's lack of knowledge about what is coming next in the plot to maintain interest
Narrative tension
What is the term used to describe words that are understood in context to refer to a specific situation?
Specialised lexis
What is the term for a pair of words usually juxtaposed eg. tea cup
Collocation