Paper 1 - Section A
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- Created on: 23-01-18 15:07
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- AO1 -Terminology
- Phonology, phonetics & prosodics
- IPA: International, phonetic alphabet.
- Accommodation: The way that someone alters their language to suit another
- Diphthong: a vowel sound that is the combination of two seperate sounds put together
- Phoneme: sound unit
- Lexis and semantics
- Denotative meanin: literal meaning
- Connotative: associated meaning
- Semantic field: a group of words associated by the same field of reference e.g. medicine, doctor, hospital
- Hypernyms: words that label categories e.g. animal
- Hyponym: words that are associated within a category e.g. dog, cat, fish (category animals)
- Sociolect: the language used within a certain social group
- Semantic change: the process of a word changing meaning over time
- Neologisms: The process of a word chaning by using methds such as blending, compounding, acronyms and initialisms
- Grammar
- Clause: A group of words that is centered around the verb
- Subordinate clause: A clause that will be grammatically incomplete e.g. Once Adam smashed the spider
- Main clause: A clause which is grammatically complete
- Subordination: the joining of two or more clauses where only one is independent (the main clause) and the others dependent (subordinate clause/clauses).
- Modification: adding more words to provide extra detail
- Clause: A group of words that is centered around the verb
- Pragmatics
- Irony: using language to signal an attitude other than what has been literally expressed
- Cooperative principles in conversation: how interaction is thought to be based upon various kinds of cooperative behaviour between speakers.
- Discourse
- Discourse markers: words, phrases or clauses that help to organise what we say or write (e.g. OK, So, “As I was saying…”).
- Anaphoric reference: Referring to something that was previously mentioned in the text
- Cataphoric reference: Refferring to something that has not yet been mentined e.g.When she arrived, Grace was suprised.
- Phonology, phonetics & prosodics
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