Jersusalem spoken language features

Sociolect

Dialect of a particular social class

Idiolect

Speech habits particular to a person

Standard English

A form of English which is widely accepted as ‘correct’

Adjacency pairs

When one utterance is followed by an appropriate linked response

Tag question

Question added onto the end of a sentence

Colloquialism

Casual, conversational lexis

Taboo lexis

Words and phrases that would be generally considered inappropriate

Paralinguistic features

Non-verbal aspects of communication

Back Channelling

The feedback which a listener gives to a speaker to show that they are following