Conversation Analysis
In conversation analysis, what is the basic unit of speech produced by an individual speaker?
What is a turn
This model elicits exchange with these three modes: Initiating, Responding, and Follow-up
What is the IRF Model
Unit of analysis for studying verbal interactions. For example: having a conversation at a party or ordering a meal.
What is a Speech event
This phenomenon describes recalling approximate synonyms or antonyms.
Ex:
A: Isn't it lovely
B: Yes, It's so nice
What is Relexicalization
Study of utterances (sequences of words written or spoken in specific contexts)
What is Discourse
The verbal responses such as “Mmm,” “uh-huh,” “yeah,” and “right” that listeners use while another person is speaking
What are backchannel responses?
This approach focusses on how people use language with one another to accomplish everyday social interactions. It also describes the relationship between language and social context.
What is Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)
This approach focusses on situations and use, functions and patterns, of speaking as an activity in its own right. This approach also discussed the Speaking Grid.
What is the Ethnographic Approach
This phenomenon occurs when the listener repeats the speakers lexis.
What is Repetition
Work with 'sentences' (sequences of words conforming, or not, to the rules of grammar for the construction of phrases, clauses, etc.)
What is a Grammarian
The basic pattern in conversation analysis consisting of two turns that mutually affect one another.
What is an adjacency pair
This approach focusses on the relationship between language, ideology, and power.
What is Critical Discourse Analysis
This theory describes the overall structure of a fully formed narrative of personal experience. This includes: Abstract, Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution, Coda.
What is the Variation Theory
This term refers to the display of opposites in the same utterance, which enables speakers to focus lexical meaning and distinguish them from out-of-context semantic meanings.
What is Instantial lexical meanings
The primary focus is to achieve interpersonal goals: to establish who we are, how we relate to others and what we think of how the world is.
What is Informal spoken discourse
This sequence is an example of:
A: Good morning
B: Leave me alone!
What is a dispreferred sequence
This was the name of the school where Sinclair and Coulthard built the IRF model.
What is Birmingham
The primary focus is to achieve pragmatic goals: to talk to find out information, to pass on knowledge, to make appointments, to get jobs.
What is Formal spoken discourse