adjacency pairs

adverbial phrase

archaic

backtracking

clause constructions

colloquial language

contraction

cooperative signals

cue

deixis

direct speech

discourse marker

dominant speaker

elision

exposition

figurative language

graphology

hedge

idiolect

imperative

incomplete utterance

interrogative

micropause

modifiers

overlapping

‘over the shoulder’ narrative viewpoint

paralinguistic

persona

phonetic spelling

prosodic features

receiver

rhetoric

semantic field

sequencing

sociolect

spontaneous conversation

taboo language

tag question

triadic structure

verbose