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Chapter 4 Spoken language, Oral culture. The Seven Characteristics of Conversational Speech. 1. Speech is transient, rather than permanent. 2. S peech is additive or ‘rhapsodic’. 3. Speech is aggregative./ phatic communion 4. Speech is redundant or ‘copious’.
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The Seven Characteristics of Conversational Speech • 1. Speech is transient, rather than permanent. • 2. Speech is additive or ‘rhapsodic’. • 3. Speech is aggregative./ phatic communion • 4. Speech is redundant or ‘copious’
5. Speech is loosely structured grammatically and is lexically sparse. • 6. Speech tends to be people-centered, writing tends to be topic- centered. • 7. Speech, being close to the situation at hand, is context dependent.
These seven features are not inherent (permanent) in the spoken or written medium. • Orality and literacy have to be seen as a continuum use of both the spoken & written languages. • E.g. • emails/ memos (written in the orate mode/ ‘informal style’) • presentations/ lectures (spoken in the literate mode/ ‘elevated style’)
The cultural matrix of language as it is used in verbal exchanges • Indicating Status: -via words/ titles - clip #20 • Social positioning - via intonation, pronunciation (footing) - - code switching - cultural frame/ speech order - clip #22& 21 • Protecting face - via order of speech & respect - example ‘Japanese’ -clip #23
4) Conversational style - depends on contexts of situation/ culture - interview? Friendly? Silent? Loud? … • Narrative style - via story telling - less details/ analysis vs. more