Friday, 26 April 2013

Some terms



Etymology: the study of word origins and meanings

Prosody: The patterns of stress and intonation in a language.

Adjacency pairs:  Two utterances that follow on from one another in a logical sequence. E.g. question and   answer
 
Deictic: A deictic expression cannot be understood unless the context of the utterance is known. Examples are ‘here’ and ‘there’.

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