spoken language sac

[mumakai]

I have a SAC tomorrow on the topic of spoken language.

 We have been told that the analysis will be on the abc show Spicks and speck
also we have been given a list of possible questions and i have added how there marks will be broken down.


Overlaps and explanation of its role in co-operative conversation
•3 marks
•   2 mark for two examples
•   1 mark for correct analysis
Non Fluency features
•4 marks
•   2 marks for examples
•   2 marks for discussion
Dominant sentence type and their use to support the host
•4 marks
•   2 marks for explanation for dominant sentence type
•   2 marks for identification of host’s purpose in each
Prosodic features and their function
•4 marks
•   2 marks for 2 correct features
•   2 mark for accurate description
Turn taking – context – relationship between participants
•7 marks
•   2 marks for description of turn taking
•   1 mark for discussion of context
•   2 marks for effect of context on interaction
•   2 marks for discussion of relationship

Could you please help me out, I'm desperately in need, my sac is tomorrow!!!

[_avO]

overlapping - intentionally interrupting to hold the floor
non fluency features - includes repairs, hedging, pauses/fillers, etc
dominant sentence type - er..? idk is that imperatives? or whichever holds the floor (i.e. more control over the other speaker)
prosodic features - stress: to show anger, emphasis on the point etc, tone: shouting usually is used to hold the floor (similar to stress), intonation: rising intonation refers to questions, used to maintain the floor (meaning that the user still wants to continue their utterance) or general teenage speech
turn taking - maintain relationships (social distance, rapport etc), with more turntaking that means the users are have more social rapport but it depends on context

I'm not very good at language so what I say might not all be true
Good luck on your sac! is it worth 50% of unit 4?

[Kavinda]

maybe this will help?


Types of Questions
•   Overlaps and explanation of its role in co-operative conversation
•   3 marks
o   2 mark for two examples
o   1 mark for correct analysis
   "Cooperative overlap occurs when one interlocutor is showing her enthusiastic support and agreement with another. Cooperative overlap occurs when the speakers view silence between turns as impolite or as a sign of a lack of rapport.
•   Non Fluency features
•   4 marks
o   2 marks for examples
o   2 marks for discussion
•   Dominant sentence type and their use to support the host
•   4 marks
•   2 marks for explanation for dominant sentence type
•   2 marks for identification of host’s purpose in each
   Declarative
•   Host purpose
o   To illicit information to the contestants and to the audience about the games about to be held. Through the use of statements.
•   Interrogatives
o   Questions or statements that ask for an answer
o   To keep the discourse moving along and to fill in time by asking questions from the contestants. This is used to entertain the audience. 
•   Exclamative
o   Sentences that express a strong feeling of emotion
•   Prosodic features and their function
•   4 marks
o   2 marks for 2 correct features
o   2 mark for accurate description
•   Prosodic features
   Final intonation
•   Signals the end of a persons turn
•   Signals the end of a syntactic unit
   Continuing intonation
•   Floor holding technique
   Stress
•   Rising of a particular word or point
•   Used for contrasting or comparing
•   Used when repairing/ self-correcting
•   Adds liveliness and indicates strength of emotion
   Tempo
•   Used to gather thoughts
•   Used to create suspense
   Pitch
•   Used to animate the conversation
•   Falls naturally as topics/turns come to their natural conclusion
•   Rises to ask questions or to seek affirmation
   
•   Turn taking – context – relationship between participants
•   7 marks
   2 marks for description of turn taking
o   the turn taking Is generally seen as co-operative. The turns are usually short and fairly evenly shared. The host A, controls the direction of the discourse through his questions and this results in adjacency pairs with the other contestants which creates a cooperative turn taking environment.
   1 mark for discussion of context
o   contextually the show serves to entertain the studio and TV audience. This, combined with the fact that the competition is not too serious, results in the environment being a fairly relaxed one.
   2 marks for effect of context on interaction
o   Interlocutors will be more inclined to incur overlaps in the discourse.
o   When competition for the floor arises, it is generally solved by one interlocutor speaking louder and faster and therefore gaining the floor.
o   how does the context affect the turn taking
   2 marks for discussion of relationship
o   Is it relaxed?
o   Formal?
o   The use of adjacency pair
o   Turns are usually short and fairly evenly shared as the interlocutors are entertainers and wish to keep the audience captive.
o   The interlocutors share a close social rapport, this is probably due to the nature of the show which is pretty relaxed, informal and that the interlocutors all share a mutal and common background, music.
o   Also it is the “duty” of myf , alan and adam to “elicit responses” from the guests.

just had some spare time last night, so i whipped that up for ya, yeah im pretty awesome :coolsmiley: