dramatic + spoken features

kinesics

MOVEMENT of characters

[shaking his head]

[stands perfectly still]

[pointing to Lydia's house]

prosodics

HOW THEY SPEAK in terms of intonation and dynamics

[commandingly sweet]

[he speaks quietly, factually at first]

[slight pause]

proxemics

SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP in terms of how close or far apart characters are to one another, and movement towards each other

[then comes down toward Chris]

[Keller enters from house. Chris sees him, goes down R.]

[putting a fist up to Chris' jaw]

adjacency pairs

conversational turn-taking

Q: "Happy birthday to you"

President: "thank you"

dialect

unlike accent, dialect also includes vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure in addition to pronunciation.

end clipping

cutting off the last syllables of a word

"shootin' match"

non-verbal utterance

meaningless word that marks a pause or hesitation in speech

"oh…"

“er”

hedge

to try to avoid giving an answer to something or taking any action

"Anyway, what was your work news?"

"Oh.. nothing really. Cheers."