Features of Spoken Language
Across
- 3. The distinctive grammar and vocabulary which is associated with a specific geographical.
- 5. This is the basic structure of speech. Participants in a conversation take turns to speak.
- 8. The way that words are pronounced
- 9. This is often shown by underlining or emboldening to show that a word, or part of a word, has been said in a particular way.
- 11. This occurs where more than one speaker speaks at the same time.
Down
- 1. These are words which do not carry conventional meaning but which are inserted in speech to allow time to think, to create a pause or to hold a turn in conversation.
- 2. Informal words and phrases.
- 4. This occurs where one speaker jumps in and seizes the topic, overriding another speaker.
- 6. The situation or circumstance in which speech takes place.
- 7. These are breaks in speech and can be very short (micro pauses) or much longer (timed pauses, in seconds) and are used for a range of effects: thinking time, hesitation, waiting for a response, to indicate that a turn in the conversation is complete for example.
- 10. Subject specific vocabulary