A2 Language notes

• An adjacency pair could be a 'question and answer' or 'statement and response'
• The term for saying 'yeah' or 'uh huh' whilst someone else is talking is back-channel agreement.
• If conversation flows swiftly from one turn to the next, this is called latched talk.
• The observers paradox is when you affect the data you are studying by investigating it.
• The data from your investigation needs to be ethical, comparable and reliable.
• A03 awards marks for context.
• GRAPE-Genre, reception, audience, purpose, expectations.
• You should analyse texts for how they make meanings and representations
• Examples of terms from the framework 'lexis' - connotations, lexical field, metaphor etc.
• Deborah Tannen's theory was the difference theory.
• Examples of deficit features- empty adjectives, intensifiers, hedges, tag questions etc.
• Deborah Cameron- 'your genes don't determine your jeans'
• Trudgill did his NORMS research in Norwich
• The island locals in Martha's Vineyard show covert prestige.
• There was more pronunciation of the post-vocalic 'R' sound in more expensive stores in Labovs 'fourth floor' study
• Overgeneralisation is when children apply standard grammatical rules to irregular verbs and nouns
• The stage after the two-word stage is the telegraphic stage.
• The halliday's function for getting your needs met is the instrumental function
• Deb Roy did the research on his son and discovered that caregivers simplify the utterances around a word that is about to be learned.