Analysis of Speech

Adjacency Pair

Linked utterances e.g. Q/A

Agenda Setting

Subject that will be talked about

Turn-taking

When a speaker talks then another

False start/repairs

A speaker says something then corrects themself

Topic Marker/Shifts

Change in topic

Utterance

Something that is spoken, usually includes a silence

Elision

Leaving out parts of a word or phrase

Tag Question

Question at the end of a sentence indicating the listener to speak e.g “You know?”

Ellipsis

A pause in speaking

Fillers

Words or sounds. e.g. like, so, um

Paralinguistic Features

Body language, adds meaning to what is said without using words

Hedges

Implies uncertainty

Interactional/transactional talk

Conversation that has a purpose

Interruption

Talking over eachother

Phatic talk

Saying unimportant things, things that dont have a purpose

Overlap

Talking over eachother but not considered rude

Backchanneling

The listener says something to show they are listening e.g. yeah

Face Needs (positive/negative)

Changing face expression to fit the situation

Non-fluency Features

A feature that shows the conversation is spontaneous

Interrogatives

Questions

Declaratives

Statement

Exclamative

Exclamation mark