GCSE - Spoken language study - Terminology

Question	Answer
Paralinguistic features	-body language - the way you project your voice -facial expressions
Accent	The way words are pronounced
Dialect	The words used according to an area
Moderation	To change your accent or dialect to fit a situation
Socialect	Ways of speaking in a social group
Jargon	Specialised words particular to a specific thing
Idiolect	Words that are individual to you
Received pronunciation (RP)	An accent where words are pronounced correctly. Makes people sound more educated. Suggests authority.
Standard English	A dialect where the correct words (not slang) are used in the correct order.
Filler	Fillers are used to give people thinking time while holding on to the conversation. -errrmm -ahhh -weeelllll -like
Overlapping (//)	When people speak over each other. Shows: enthusiasm, power, the need to take over, rudeness
Covert prestige	When people change how they speak to fit in with a group. Used to make people sound more 'common' or 'working class'
Overt prestige	When people change how they speak to seem posher.
Agenda setting	When a person introduces/decides a subject.
Initialism	-LOL -OMG -BRB
Ellision	-gonna -wanna
False start	When a person starts a sentence but then starts it again
Phatic talk	Speech where no point is made. Known as 'small talk'

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	Created by Caitlin Hames over 10 years ago