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Utterance

In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, by one person, before or after which there is silence on the part of the person. In written language, utterances only exist indirectly, through their representations or portrayals. They can be represented and delineated in written language in many ways.

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Characteristics

ScriptProsodicTag questionsFillersDeictic expressions
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Overview

Spoken languageSpeechPersonSilenceWritten language
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Child-directed speech

Socioeconomic statusVocabularyWordsPhonologyPragmatics
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Bakhtin's theory of utterance

Mikhail BakhtinSentence
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Child-directed speech

Bakhtin's theory of utterance

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Utterance

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples74
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
Components1

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Utterance

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related to Child-directed speech · 30
Utterance → Arriaga, As, Cronan, Fenson, For, Hart, Hedges, Hoff, Hoff's, Hoff-Ginsberg, Huttenlocher, In, It, Laursen, Lawrence, Ninio, Pethick, Risley, SES, Shipley
related to Characteristics · 15
Utterance → An, As, Cold, Do, Ellipsis, Examples, False, For, Juice, Non-fluency, Please, Prosodic, Room, Tag, These
related to Bakhtin's theory of utterance · 10
Utterance → According, All, An, Boundaries, Finalization, Generic, Mikhail Bakhtin, Responsivity, The, This
related to Gricean maxims · 6
Utterance → Manner, Maxim, Paul Grice, Quality, Quantity, Relation
related to Further reading · 5
Utterance → Archived, Mikhail Bakhtin The Problem, Speech Genres, THEORY OF THE UTTERANCE, Wayback Machine
is a · 1
Utterance → continuous piece of speech

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utterances language spoken words speech features used also children written lexis example include etc speaker use voiced pauses understood found

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Utteranceis acontinuous piece of speech0.90text
paralinguistic featuresinstance ofutterances have several characteristics0.80text
which are aspects of speech such as facial expressioninstance ofutterances have several characteristics0.80text
gestureinstance ofutterances have several characteristics0.80text
and postureinstance ofutterances have several characteristics0.80text
adoreinstance ofa semantic field of love can be created with lexical choices0.80text
admireinstance ofa semantic field of love can be created with lexical choices0.80text
and careinstance ofa semantic field of love can be created with lexical choices0.80text
Utterancerelated to Bakhtin's theory of utteranceAccording0.60section
Utterancerelated to Bakhtin's theory of utteranceMikhail Bakhtin0.60section
Utterancerelated to Bakhtin's theory of utteranceBoundaries0.60section
Utterancerelated to Bakhtin's theory of utteranceAll0.60section

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