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