Discourse Analysis

Complete units of speech bounded by silence

• Statement

• Utterances

• Fillers

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

_______________such as g’day, howdy, howzit,

hiya, hello, good morning, nice day, how are you? establish feelings of mutual

ease.

• Greeting

• Salutation

• Opening greetings

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Conversation is usually _______________ with participants

taking turns.

• taxing

• co-operative

• involving

• tiring

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

‘Statement’ and ‘response’ as the basis of conversation are

• Competing pairs

• Adjacent pairs

• Minimal pairs

• Adjacency pairs

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

When someone is about to finish their turn we use a

variety of strategies to determine who will take over.Which of he following is not?

• we can complete what we are saying (e.g. and so I got thoroughly soaked.)

• we can name them (e.g. Anyango was there, she knows about it)

• we can slap them

• our voice may start to fall and we may look more closely at those who are

  about to take their conversational turn.

_____________communion is the name for the polite ‘ice-breakers’ we use when greeting people in order to initiate a conversation.

• Phartic

• Emphartic

• Phatic

• Emphatic

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

___________________ are also part of non-fluency features when a speaker realises they have made an error and attempts to repair the error often by use of meta

language

• False starts

• Fillers

• Ers

• Pauses

kind of, you know what I mean, actually, basically are examples of

• edges

• vague expressions

• hedges

• vague linguistics

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

__________is where the meaning of an utterance is generally understood between the participants and so can be shortened to focus the topic.

• Epilipsy

• Elision

• Ellipsis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

__________ refers to any spoken or written language that is longer than a sentence

• conversion

• speech

• book

• discourse

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3