AQA A-Level English Language and Literature Terminology Questions & Correct Answers/ Graded A+

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...) 2 jargon : language used in conversation that outsiders possibly cannot understand voiced hesitation : 'erm...' 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 overla