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