AQA A-Level English Language and
Literature Terminology questions and
answers
adjacency pair - unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each
by two speakers
syntactic error - the inaccurate arrangement on words in a sentence e.g 'the Palais
de Tokyo has great stuff always'
(conversational) repair - marked by a hesitation in speech where the speaker
changes topic or ameliorates the situation
stress - emphasis on a word or phrase by sound
empty subject - the personal pronoun from the start of a sentence is missing (e.g
came up to the house... had breakfast in the hotel...)
jargon - language used in conversation that outsiders possibly cannot understand
voiced hesitation - 'erm...'
, AQA A-Level English Language and
Literature Terminology questions and
answers
filler - 'um, ah, okay, right, er...'
phrase repetition - repetition of a phrase, possibly in hesitation (e.g "we d- we did
a lot of stuff")
unfinished sentence - e.g "there's a lot of people you don't (.) there's a lot of
people you don't understand"
topic shift - a change in topic within conversation
overlap - interruption in speech between two people
elongation - extended length of sound in a vowel, usually marked in the transcript
by ': :' (e.g that is imp: :ossible)
allophones - the difference in pronunciation of a phoneme (e.g the pronunciation
of 'a' in 'elegant' is different from 'a' in 'ant')
Literature Terminology questions and
answers
adjacency pair - unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each
by two speakers
syntactic error - the inaccurate arrangement on words in a sentence e.g 'the Palais
de Tokyo has great stuff always'
(conversational) repair - marked by a hesitation in speech where the speaker
changes topic or ameliorates the situation
stress - emphasis on a word or phrase by sound
empty subject - the personal pronoun from the start of a sentence is missing (e.g
came up to the house... had breakfast in the hotel...)
jargon - language used in conversation that outsiders possibly cannot understand
voiced hesitation - 'erm...'
, AQA A-Level English Language and
Literature Terminology questions and
answers
filler - 'um, ah, okay, right, er...'
phrase repetition - repetition of a phrase, possibly in hesitation (e.g "we d- we did
a lot of stuff")
unfinished sentence - e.g "there's a lot of people you don't (.) there's a lot of
people you don't understand"
topic shift - a change in topic within conversation
overlap - interruption in speech between two people
elongation - extended length of sound in a vowel, usually marked in the transcript
by ': :' (e.g that is imp: :ossible)
allophones - the difference in pronunciation of a phoneme (e.g the pronunciation
of 'a' in 'elegant' is different from 'a' in 'ant')
