English Speech Analysis Terminology

Agenda

Archaisms (Archaic Language)

Backchannelling

Backtracking

Blend

Borrowing

Clipping

Colloquial Speech

Compounding

Contractions

Convergence

Deixis

Dialects

Dialogue

Direct speech

Indirect speech

Discourse

Discourse marker

Divergence

Ellipses ...

Ellipsis

Ellision

Embedded Dialogue

False start (Self-Correction/Repair)

Figuarative language

Fillers

Genderlect

Head

Hedging

Hesitations

Idiolect

Idiom

Initial position conjunction

Intensifiers

Intonation

Jargon

Latch-Ons (Overlaps)

Leixis

Micropause

Minimal response

Mitigation

Modifier

Non standard grammar (English)

Open Question

Closed Question

Overlapping

Paralinguistic Features

Pauses

Phatic Talk

Phonology

Pragmatics

Register & Tone

Self monitoring

Interrogative

Declarative

Imperative

Exclamation

Slang

Sociolects

Syntax

Taboo language

Tag

Tag questions

Tail

Three part exchange

Timed pause

Topic loop

Topic shift

Transcription

Utterances

Vague language

Verbose