SOCIOLINGUISTIC - CONVERSATIONAL CATEGORY

CONVERSATIONAL CATEGORY QUESTIONS 
(These questions raised in question and answer session during presentation) 

What is the characteristic of planned and unplaned speech? 

• Characteristics of planned speech are less of repetition, less of filler paused, less of false starting, has systematic structure of speech and word chosen understandable for the listener.
• Characteristics of unplanned speech are many repetition, filler paused occur, and the structure of speech is unsystematic. 

What is a characteristic of a good and poor conversation? 

•  Characteristics of good conversational are there is eye contact between speakers, using familiar words to avoid misunderstanding, share each other (balance turn-taking) 
• Characteristic of poor conversational are there is dominated speaker in taking turn to speak, much overlapping of one/some speaker, and inappropriate answer/ respond toward the question.

How come a performative utterance failed? 

• The performative failed when there is no thoughts, feelings and intensions exist for doing whatever is to be done and must specify who must say and do what and in what circumstances.