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- 1. Multiple Choice
Complete units of speech bounded by silence
Statement
Utterances
Fillers
- 2. Multiple Choice
_______________such as g’day, howdy, howzit,
hiya, hello, good morning, nice day, how are you? establish feelings of mutual
ease.
Greeting
Salutation
Opening greetings
- 3. Multiple Choice
Conversation is usually _______________ with participants
taking turns.
taxing
co-operative
involving
tiring
- 4. Multiple Choice
‘Statement’ and ‘response’ as the basis of conversation are
Competing pairs
Adjacent pairs
Minimal pairs
Adjacency pairs
- 5. Multiple Choice
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.
- 6. Multiple Choice
_____________communion is the name for the polite ‘ice-breakers’ we use when greeting people in order to initiate a conversation.
Phartic
Emphartic
Phatic
Emphatic
- 7. Multiple Choice
___________________ 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
- 8. Multiple Choice
kind of, you know what I mean, actually, basically are examples of
edges
vague expressions
hedges
vague linguistics
- 9. Multiple Choice
__________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
- 10. Multiple Choice
__________ refers to any spoken or written language that is longer than a sentence
conversion
speech
book
discourse
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a back channel item?
um
c'umon
right
yeah
- 12. Multiple Choice
Words or phrases which mark boundaries between one bit of conversation and another where the speaker wishes to changes the subject
Discourse markers
Speech markers
Fillers
overlaps
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