conversational routinen
see formulaic language
conversational rulesn
also rules of speaking
rules shared by a group of people which govern their spoken conversational
behaviour. Conversational rules may, for instance, regulate when to speak
or not to speak in a conversation, what to say in a particular situation, and
how to start and end a conversation. These rules vary not only between
different languages (language^1 ) but also between different social groups
speaking the same language.
see also conversational analysis, conversational maxim
conversational stylen
a particular way of participating in conversation. People differ in the way
they take part in normal conversation. Some people participate very actively
in conversation, speaking fairly quickly and with little or no pausing between
turns. This is called a high involvement style. Other people may use a slower
rate of speaking, longer pauses between turns and avoid interruption or
completion of another speaker’s turn. This is called a high considerateness
style.
conversionn
a change in the grammatical category of a word from one word class to
another without adding an affix.
Formal clothes are a mustat a wedding. (conversion of verb to noun)
It painsme to think of it. (conversion of noun to verb)
co-occurrence restrictionn
in some models of syntactic analysis, restrictions on the elements in the
sentence so that they can only occur with certain elements and not with
others. For example, the sentence:
*Anita laughed the baby
would be ungrammatical as the verb laugh cannot co-occur with an object;
it is intransitive.
co-occurrence rulen
see speech styles
co-operating teachern
also master teacher
conversational routine