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Unit 4: Spoken Language and Creative Re-casting (A2)
Quick questions on Analysing spoken language and transcripts - WJEC A-Level English Language Unit 4
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What is an adjacency pair?Show answer
Give an example. [2 marks]
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The transcript shows relaxed, cooperative talk between equals, and its spoken features construct that relationship. Turn-taking is mostly smooth, with speakers coming in at transition-relevance places, and where overlaps occur they read as supportive rather than competitive, one speaker completing another's utterance, which signals closeness and shared understanding. The non-fluency features are not failures of competence but the normal texture of spontaneous speech: a voiced filler ("erm") holds a turn while the speaker plans, and a brief self-repair shows real-time monitoring.
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What is an adjacency pair? Give an example. [2 marks]
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State two of Grice's maxims. [2 marks]
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Analyse how spoken language is used in the transcript, referring to features of speech and context. [20 marks]
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