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  2. Situational code-switching - Wikipedia

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    Metaphorical switching is when alternation enriches a situation, allowing for allusion to more than one social relationship within the situation. [2] In metaphorical code switching, the context of the conversation is undisturbed but rather the changes adhere to the social context including the roles of those involved in the conversation.

  3. Discourse-completion task - Wikipedia

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    A discourse-completion task consists of scripted dialogue representing various scenarios, preceded by a short prompt describing the setting and situation. [1] The prompt usually includes information on social distance between participants and pre-event background to help the participant construct the scenarios.

  4. Dialogue - Wikipedia

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    A conversation amongst participants in a 1972 cross-cultural youth convention. Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) [1] is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.

  5. Buntús Cainte - Wikipedia

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    The course consists of a series of short lessons in which the presenters speak in Irish. The lessons are accompanied by English and Irish written versions of the spoken words. Each lesson contains new words, basic sentences for each of the new words, revisionary sentences, a second section of new material and a situational conversation.

  6. Metaphorical code-switching - Wikipedia

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    Jan-Petter Blom and John J. Gumperz coined the linguistic term 'metaphorical code-switching' in the late sixties and early seventies. They wanted to "clarify the social and linguistic factors involved in the communication process ... by showing that speaker's selection among semantically, grammatically, and phonologically permissible alternates occurring in conversation sequences recorded in ...

  7. The 202 best conversation starters for any (and every) situation

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    The next time you're talking to someone new, lead with one of these funny, deep, or random conversation starters. Find good ideas for dating, texting and more. The 202 best conversation starters ...

  8. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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    Reading aloud – the students take turns reading sections of a passage, play or a dialogue aloud. Student self-correction – when a student makes a mistake the teacher offers him/her a second chance by giving a choice. Conversation practice – the students are given an opportunity to ask their own questions to the other students or to the ...

  9. I don't give Christmas gifts. The holidays got better when I ...

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    This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michael Allen, a 54-year-old author from Titusville, Florida. It has been edited for length and clarity. In 1995, I realized I couldn't give ...