Lexical Frameworks
- Created by: chloeairton
- Created on: 08-04-14 09:07
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- Frameworks
- Lexis
- Number of syllables
- Monosyllabic = 1 syllable
- Polysyllabic = More than one syllable
- Does the text use old-fashioned or newer words?
- Archaic words = Old-fashioned words
- Neologisms = new words
- Does the text use slang or jargon?
- Jargon = technical words
- Does the text use colloquilaisms or taboo terms?
- Colloquialisms = Informal words used in everyday speech
- Taboo = 'forbidden' by a particular culture or in some social groups and social categories
- Number of syllables
- Grammar
- Syntax - structure of sentences
- Noun, adjecrive, adverb, prepreposition, conjunction, determiners pronouns
- Morphology = structure of words
- Simple, compound, complex, minor sentences
- Sentence functions
- Exclamations
- Interrogatives
- Imperatives
- Declaratives
- Syntax - structure of sentences
- Discourse structure
- How does the text start?
- What is the sequence of sections involved in the middle?
- How does it finish?
- Are there key words, phrases or other featires which are being used tp help the shaping of the text? These are discourse markers
- Graphology
- Shape and layout of text
- Typography
- Context
- Genre and genre convention
- Photography and art work
- Images - iconic signs and symbollic signs
- Space
- Phonology
- Syllable
- Phoneme = Smallest unit of sound
- Eye dialect = Writing phonetically to simulate an accent
- Grapheme = Snallest unit of a writing system
- Mascluline rhyme = one syllable rhymes
- Feminine rhyme = two syllables rhyme
- Mascluline rhyme = one syllable rhymes
- Semantics
- Denotation v Connotation
- Synonyms v Antonyms
- Semantic fields
- Hypernyms v hyponyms
- Hypernyms = general words for something e.g furniture
- Hyponyms = more specific words e.g. chair, bed
- Euphemisms v Dysphemisms
- Dysphemisms = Allow us to say what we mean very bluntly e.g. "You're fired!"
- Euphemisms = avoiding stating exatly what you mean e.g. "we're releasing you"
- Figurative language
- Lexis
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